hluk
commented
1 year ago If I press e.g. CTRL when selecting, the mouse does NOT copy text.
I like the idea. Often the text selections overriding clipboard is unexpected.
It won't work in Wayland (it does not support checking currently pressed keyboard modifiers), but elsewhere the following command should handle this. It reverts last to the selection and avoid synchronizing to clipboard if the Ctrl is pressed while selecting the text (here is how to add the command to CopyQ):
[Command]
Command="
function selectWithoutCopy()
{
return queryKeyboardModifiers().includes('Ctrl')
}
function reset(key, setFn) {
var last = settings(key);
if (last && last[1] == settings(key)[1]) {
serverLog('Reset from ' + key);
popup('Ready to paste ' + key, last[0]);
setFn(mimeText, last[0], mimeHidden, 1);
}
}
function save(key) {
if (hasData()) {
settings(key, [data(mimeText), Date.now()]);
}
}
function resetClipboard() {
return reset('lastClipboard', clipboard, copy);
}
function resetSelection() {
return reset('lastSelection', selection, copySelection);
}
var onClipboardChanged_ = onClipboardChanged;
onClipboardChanged = function() {
if (!isClipboard() && selectWithoutCopy()) {
resetClipboard();
resetSelection();
return;
}
onClipboardChanged_();
if (isClipboard()) {
save('lastClipboard');
} else {
save('lastSelection');
}
}
var synchronizeFromSelection_ = synchronizeFromSelection;
synchronizeFromSelection = function() {
if (!selectWithoutCopy()) {
synchronizeFromSelection_();
}
}"
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francwalter
Hello I like the feature to copy text just by selecting it with the mouse. I like the paste feature (middle mouse press) too, and that I can disable the mouse selected clips for keyboard pasting. But in work flow a thing is missing or I dont know how to handle it:
I want to paste some parts of code into another part of code which should be replaced:
but this wouldnt work, as in the (mouse) clipboard there is now the deleted text. Here I would like to have a key to modify the mouse selection copy feature:
If I press e.g. CTRL when selecting, the mouse does NOT copy text. Would that be possible? I didnt find an extension for it. Thank. frank
Ubuntu 22.04 with CopyQ 6.4.0
PS.: but anyway, CopyQ is fantastic! Really! Great thing to have, very productive! Thank a lot!