Feature request: autoCopy when autoOpen

[john-wicc]

First of all thanks for constantly adding new features to this extension and making it better. I was a user of vimium but switched to vimium-c for the autoOpen feature (saw your comment in one of vimium's issue)

I would like to autoCopy the selected text when I autoOpen it in another tab. Is this possible?

[gdh1995]

Do you mean "copy text and open/search it in another tab"? Currently you have to do them separately with Vimium C.

[john-wicc]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, I would like to do both of them in one keystroke

[gdh1995]

Why do you want it? It's possible to implement it, but I wonder a real use case.

[john-wicc]

When I read an article, I use autoOpen to google stuff (technical terms, etc) I find new. I want to keep track of what items were new to me. For this I use a clipboard manager which keeps track of what I copied. So if I want to add text to clipboard history and also search for it, I have to autoCopy it and also autoOpen it using two keystrokes. I want to do both of them using a single keystroke.

I agree this is a very rare use case and probably only useful to few people. I would be willing to make a local code change to a specific file/function in which autoOpen is implemented to also autoCopy it..

[gdh1995]

A convincing use case. Then I'll implement it in a next version, which will arrive in about one month.

[john-wicc]

Oh, thanks! Are you planning to create another action like autoCopyAndOpen which will do this?

[gdh1995]

It may be a new option, like map CC autoOpen copy=true.

[gdh1995]

Hello, you may try this: vimium_c-1.81.5-chrome-45bc0bc.zip, vimium_c-1.81.5-firefox-45bc0bc.zip

Install:

• unzip a zip file into an empty folder
• if on Chrome, open chrome://extensions/ and enable the "developer mode"
• if on Firefox, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox manually
• click the "load extension" button and select the extension folder or manifest.json

[john-wicc]

Hey! Thanks for the quick implementation! Will check it out :)

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 19:57 Dahan Gong ***@***.***> wrote: Hello, you may try this: vimium_c-1.81.5-chrome-45bc0bc.zip <https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/files/4523108/vimium_c-1.81.5-chrome-45bc0bc.zip> , vimium_c-1.81.5-firefox-45bc0bc.zip <https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/files/4523106/vimium_c-1.81.5-firefox-45bc0bc.zip> *Install*: - unzip a zip file into an empty folder - if on Chrome, open chrome://extensions/ and enable the "developer mode" - if on Firefox, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox manually - click the "load extension" button and select the extension folder or manifest.json — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#159 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALTDAA73TOTUROM4SFDVL5TROBF4XANCNFSM4MLXT5TQ> .

[gdh1995]

Hello, v1.83.0 has been released on Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons, and you may take a try.