JJJJ Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) Hello All, What I like about alfred clipboard history is I can paste any item quickly with cmd+1, cmd+2 etc.. However, sometimes I have to paste many items to a single window and I don't want to open clipboard viewer everytime. My feature suggestion is an option to pin the clipboard viewer to the screen. Then, I can turn that option on and I can use cmd+# to paste several items quickly without bothering opening the clipboard viewer each time. I would really like to hear opinions about this suggestion. Edited January 22, 2022 by JJJJ crs and Alan He 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowy Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 yeah keyboard shortcut to pin/unpin the clipboard history viewer would be super helpful. JJJJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Perhaps there could be alternative hotkeys, say ⌥↩ and ⌥⌘#, to paste the selected item and keep the window open? JJJJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJJJ Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, deanishe said: Perhaps there could be alternative hotkeys, say ⌥↩ and ⌥⌘#, to paste the selected item and keep the window open? This would do the same for me since there is no use for ⌥ in the clipboard viewer now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 9 hours ago, JJJJ said: This would do the same for me since there is no use for ⌥ in the clipboard viewer now. It's similar, but you don't have to (can't) explicitly pin/unpin the clipboard viewer. Alfred could also automatically select the next entry when you paste but don't close the clipboard viewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJJJ Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 20 hours ago, deanishe said: It's similar, but you don't have to (can't) explicitly pin/unpin the clipboard viewer. Alfred could also automatically select the next entry when you paste but don't close the clipboard viewer. Yes, then it could be even faster in that way because I can only press ⌥↩ and paste an item after an item since Alfred would paste and select the next result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowy Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 i would opt even for button in the top right corner. and it was just click and it pinned the viewer (and preferably keyboard shortcut) that keeps it on top while selecting other windows(terminal windows). my use case is little different. I don't often pick sequential items. i search for different strings of copied info (generally commands, config statements). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 The Alfred window has to hide to allow macOS to know which app the paste is intended for. If Alfred's window was "pinned" to remain on screen, macOS treats it as the focused responder, and therefore the target for a paste operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJJJ Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) On 1/24/2022 at 6:33 PM, Andrew said: The Alfred window has to hide to allow macOS to know which app the paste is intended for. If Alfred's window was "pinned" to remain on screen, macOS treats it as the focused responder, and therefore the target for a paste operation. What do you think about holding ⌥ to paste and keep the clipboard window open? There is no use for ⌥ in clipboard viewer now, and it can be Alfred's way for sequential paste if it pastes and selects the new item while keeping the window open. Edited January 25, 2022 by JJJJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crs Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 this would be very helpful! JJJJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioRuiz Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 On 1/24/2022 at 4:33 PM, Andrew said: The Alfred window has to hide to allow macOS to know which app the paste is intended for. If Alfred's window was "pinned" to remain on screen, macOS treats it as the focused responder, and therefore the target for a paste operation. +1 This would be very helpful when working on extremely repetitive copy-paste tasks. Maybe, an option could be to trigger this behaviour using the ⌥ key, as JJJJ mentioned. But, if the clipboard viewer has to close to trigger the focus change, using ⌥ would reopen automatically the clipboard viewer, removing the need to use the shortcut again. Would that be possible? JJJJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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