Needs scripts for plain text paste and em dash Topic is solved

[kissinger]

These things are easy to do on MacOS with no need for AHK, but now that I'm on Windows I will needs scripts that would allow me to do both. Does anyone have either of these?

[jeeswg]

Here's some code. Cheers.

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q:: ;paste clipboard as plain text
Clipboard := Clipboard
SendInput, ^v
return

;note:
;vText := Clipboard stores the clipboard's plain text to a variable
;Clipboard := vText puts plain text onto the clipboard

w:: ;send em dash
SendInput, % Chr(A_IsUnicode ? 8212 : 151)
return

[JoeWinograd]

Hi kissinger,
You may find this thread from earlier this month about em dash and en dash to be helpful:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46554
Regards, Joe

[kissinger]

Thanks both. Works great now.

[JoeWinograd]

You're welcome...glad to hear it...thanks for letting us know. Cheers, Joe

[kissinger]

These scripts are still working fine, but I've noticed a quirk, which is that when I plain text paste large chunks of texts (e.g., several lines at a time) there is always a line break in the last line, which doesn't appear in the original copied section of text. Has anyone else noticed this? It might be a bug in Window for all I know, but it's certainly pretty annoying.

[jeeswg]

Are you copying from Excel? Excel adds a trailing line break, you can remove trailing linefeed/carriage return characters like so:

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vText := RTrim(Clipboard, "`r`n")

Or to remove just the last line break:

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vText := Clipboard
if RegExMatch(vText, "`r`n$")
	vText := SubStr(vText, 1, -2)

;or:
vText := Clipboard
if (SubStr(vText, 1, StrLen(vText)-1) = "`r`n")
	vText := SubStr(vText, 1, -2)