Feature Request: Insert clipboard contents....

[pitm2000]

Die Zwischenablage von Windows einfügen

z.B. mit %%ZWISCHENABLAGE%%

ist das lösbar ??

mfg

[RealRaven2000]

Die Zwischenablage von Windows einfügen
z.B. mit %%ZWISCHENABLAGE%%
ist das lösbar ??

ja wäre im Prinzip machbar (nicht nur für Windows). Vielleicht als %clipboard.get%, mal sehen. Ich könnte mir auch Erweiterungen für %header.set% welche die Zwischenablage unterstützen als brauchbar vorstellen. Gibt's ein Beispiel Szenario?

Clipboard support would be generally possible (not just in Windows). Maybe in the form of %clipboard.get%, we will see. It could also be useful to extend %header.set% and friends with clipboard support. Do you have an example for a use case?

[pitm2000]

Hoffentlich ist das machbar...

thx

[RealRaven2000]

Try this version and use %clipboard% to insert the current clipboard text - if you paste into a HTML mail, this will be interpreted as HTML (so you could copy a string like <b>fett</b> ). If nothing suitable is found in clipboard, the variable will be removed.

smartTemplate-fx-3.7pre27.zip

To install, download the zip file and drag into Thunderbird Add-ons Manager.

[RealRaven2000]

Added support or pasting HTML - now you can insert a little formatted text from a Word document or a webpage. Note: this may fail if you paste into a plain text mail, need to check the behavior there.

smartTemplate-fx-3.7pre35.zip

To install, download the zip file and drag into Thunderbird Add-ons Manager.

[RealRaven2000]

Implemented in 3.7, published on 20/08/2021

[Matherion]

This functionality is awesome, thank you!!!

I have two ideas for extension that would make it even more awesome:

• Being able to force pasting plain-text only (as a safeguard in situations where you want to prevent layout being influenced);
• I'm maybe missing something again, but - is it possible to use variables (such as clipboard contents) when setting headers (e.g. the subject or recipient)? When I add %clipboard%, the first % seems to be interpreted as closing the substitution function, so this may not be trivial (i.e. another symbol would have to be used within such functions, or double %%, or an escaped %, etc)?

Also - maybe add %clipboard% to the list in "Usage of variables" specifying where it can be used? I use that list a quick reference for all implemented variables.

[RealRaven2000]

This functionality is awesome, thank you!!!

I have two ideas for extension that would make it even more awesome:

• Being able to force pasting plain-text only (as a safeguard in situations where you want to prevent layout being influenced);

I will look into it (the Syntax is usually something like %variable(options)% so I see what I can do. If a plain text version of the copied detail exists (usually clipboards have multiple formats) then we could force accessing this. Maybe something like %clipboard(text)% vs %clipboard(html)%....

• I'm maybe missing something again, but - is it possible to use variables (such as clipboard contents) when setting headers (e.g. the subject or recipient)? When I add %clipboard%, the first % seems to be interpreted as closing the substitution function, so this may not be trivial (i.e. another symbol would have to be used within such functions, or double %%, or an escaped %, etc)?

Unfortunately, you cannot "nest" the variables, the underlying (regex) parser is just too "stupid" to recognize and replace stuff accordingly. so you cannot do %variable1(%variable2%)% because the parser sees this: %variable1(% variable2 %)%

but I was thinking of something like a extended syntax such as %header.set.fromClipboard(header)% ... I will have to think about that for a while.

Also - maybe add %clipboard% to the list in "Usage of variables" specifying where it can be used? I use that list a quick reference for all implemented variables.

Yes definitely need to add that to the variables tabs on SmartTemplates settings yet.

[RealRaven2000]

Can you test the new version in issue #210 please?

There were issues with using (copying to) clipboard multiple times, so there is a new version I plan to release. So far I have tested the preview version with %header.set(..,toclipboard)% and %matchTextFromSubject(...,toclipboard)%.