How to copy selected text to clipboard

[Papoulka]

My overall goal is to create a user button that will do a Search & Replace on all files in the current folder, deleting from each filename the text that I have highlighted / selected in one of those filenames. My script now looks like this:

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selfilter , f;
 rename s, <clipboard>/, p;

However, I have to press Ctrl-C myself before running it, to get the selected text onto the clipboard. I would like to use:

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#201;
 selfilter , f;
 rename s, <clipboard>/, p;

but #201 drops what I have manually selected and instead selects the whole name.

--> To fix this I need the script equivalent of "Ctrl-C", so that I can highlight part of a filename and have that text (only) copied to the clipboard. Unfortuntately, using #201 does not copy the selected text; it copies the whole filename (less extension).

Thanks for any suggestions.


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Searching, I did find a thread which indicates that copying the selected text can't be done. However, XY has so much capability, and this seems like such a mundane thing, that I want to ask before I give up.

ref thread: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... xt#p118006

[bdeshi]

#201 actually copes the selected file. In fact none of the Edit > Copy/Cut/Paste is work with text. They're file operations.

That said, try this script.

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::sendkeys ^c; /* ^ = CTRL*/ wait 1 /*or 10*/; /*sendkeys needs time*/ selfilter , f; rename s, <clipboard>/, p;

I suggest you assign this to a ctb Lclick script. Trying to trigger the script any other way will deselect your text.

[Papoulka]

Thank you, Sammay! I will try this out.