Probably a silly question with an easy answer

[mhermon]

I'm using AHK for very basic hot key creation of things I type sometimes hundreds of times a day and i am trying to figure out how to insert clipboard content into my hotkey

example
perform X on Y;sleep 60;perform Z on Y

The "y" changes while everything else stays the same, can I automatically insert clipboard content for y? I've read the documentation for clipboard and clipboardall but that seems to be for more complex scripting (either that or I just dont understand how it works in my scenario)

Is what I'm trying to do possible in a basic hotkey phrase or do i need to do it via script?

[BNOLI]

Even a single basic hotkey phrase is executed using a script. So, yes.

[swagfag]

so u want a hotkey to insert the phrase

perform X on Y;sleep 60;perform Z on Y

, where Y is the contents of ur Clipboard?

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q::Send % "{Text}perform X on " Clipboard ";sleep 60;perform Z on " Clipboard

press q

[mhermon]

Even a single basic hotkey phrase is executed using a script. So, yes.

Yeah, I understand that, just didnt know how to present it any other way. Based on the example above, I've just been doing it wrong and I'm about to up my AHK game.

[mhermon]

so u want a hotkey to insert the phrase

perform X on Y;sleep 60;perform Z on Y

, where Y is the contents of ur Clipboard?

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q::Send % "{Text}perform X on " Clipboard ";sleep 60;perform Z on " Clipboard

press q

Thank you for the example, looks like I can improve a lot of my basic AHKs. I was just not using the right option for what I was trying to do. I was just using text expansion

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::;q;;perform X on Y;sleep 60;perform Z on Y

[mhermon]

so u want a hotkey to insert the phrase

perform X on Y;sleep 60;perform Z on Y

, where Y is the contents of ur Clipboard?

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q::Send % "{Text}perform X on " Clipboard ";sleep 60;perform Z on " Clipboard

press q

Hope you dont mind another question, the script example you provided does exactly what it should. how do I prevent it from executing every time I press the trigger? I used p instead of q. I tried to make it use a 3 letter trigger, which is how my basic text expansion was triggered but that doesn't appear to work

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::;pmp::pimp -x target;sleep 60;pimp -o target

so typing ;pmp resulted in pimp -x target;sleep 60;pimp -o target being output to my terminal.

With the script every time I enter p it outputs the contents of the script, which is obviously going to result in a lot of backspacing or disabling the script.

I tried using p & m so it requires both keys to be pressed but it breaks the script.

If you can just point in the right direction in the documentation I can likely figure it out

[mhermon]

I figured out a way to get it to work, not sure if it is the "right" way, but it works.

I just use ^p to trigger the script instead of p