How to select text that was just pasted with "copy to clipboard" action.

[Devlan]

I am just wondering if there is a way for alfred to highlight text that was just pasted via alfred.

 

For context I've created a workflow for cycling through different capitalization modes. I only want to remember one hotkey for this, so the script will change the text to lower -> sentence -> title -> upper depending on the current state. My idea was that you could just repeat the same command 1-4 times to get to the desired state. It is working, but right now I have to re-highlight the selection each time.

 

The only idea I have right now which might work is to send a repeated shift + left arrow key equal to the number of characters in the original text. Is there a better way than this?

 

Thanks!

[deanishe]

12 minutes ago, Devlan said:

Is there a better way than this?

 

Nope. I’m pretty sure that’s exactly how {cursor} works: Alfred just simulates enough ← keypresses to move the cursor.