pasterrr

An Alfred Workflow


Short Description

Character-by-character paste queue for Alfred

Last Updated

13 Nov 2019

Compatibility

Yosemite
(10.10)
Mavericks
(10.9)
Mountain Lion
(10.8)
Lion
(10.7)
Snow Leopard
(10.6)
Yes No No No No
 

Version

1.0.0
 

Bundle ID

nl.nutma.pasterrr
 

Author

This workflow is a paste queue and a character-by-character paster in one.

The character-by-character paste takes whatever is on the clipboard and pastes it one character at a time to the frontmost application, giving the impression of typing. It can be triggered by the default hotkey ⇧⌃⌘V.

The paste queue is invoked with ⌃⌘V. It splits the content of the clipboard according to a delimiter (defaults to a blank line), and gives the first entry to the character-by-character paster. The remainder is copied to the clipboard.

For instance, if the following is on the clipboard:

This is the first line.

This is the second.

// This line is skipped.

This is the fourth line.

Then pressing ⌃⌘V will paste "This is the first line.". Pressing it again will paste "This is the second.", and pressing it a third time will paste "This is the fourth line.".

Note that the workflow does not actually paste, but simulates keypresses. Hence non-ASCII characters do not work.

The character-by-character paster will be aborted when pressing a modifier key. This comes in handy when you accidentally pasted a large amount of text.

The default delimiter is "", and the default skip prefix is "//". Both can be changed by adjusting their variables ("delimiter" and "skip_prefix", respectively).

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