how to swap clipboard content with selection upon keyboard shortcut

Question

I\'d like to exchange the currently selected text in eclipse (or even any program) on linux with the content of the clipboard when pressing a shortcut like Ctrl-B. Any ideas

Answer 1

There is a project called IronAHK which aims to make AutoHotkey cross-platform. It looks to have an extremely long development cycle, so I am not certain it supports everything that the latest AutoHotkey does. It is definitely worth a look!

Below is the code that would work in Windows:

^b::
    Old_Clip := clipboard
    Send ^x
    Send % Old_Clip 
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