Keyboard shortcut to paste clipboard content into command prompt window (Win XP) [closed]

Answer 1

Thanks Pablo, just what I was looking for! However, if I can take the liberty of improving your script slightly, I suggest replacing your ^V macro with the following:

; Use backslash instead of backtick (yes, I am a C++ programmer).
#EscapeChar \

; Paste in command window.
^V::
StringReplace clipboard2, clipboard, \r\n, \n, All
SendInput {Raw}%clipboard2%
return

The advantage of using SendInput is that

• it doesn't rely on the command prompt system menu having an "Alt+Space E P" menu item to do the pasting (works for English and Spanish, but not for all languages).
• it avoids that nasty flicker you get as the menu is created and destroyed.

Note, it's important to include the "{Raw}" in the SendInput command, in case the clipboard happens to contain "!", "+", "^" or "#".

Note, it uses StringReplace to remove excess Windows carriage return characters. Thanks hugov for that suggestion!

Answer 2

It took me a small while to figure out why your AutoHotkey script does not work with me:

; Use backslash instead of backtick (yes, I am a C++ programmer).
#EscapeChar \

; Paste in command window.
^V::
StringReplace clipboard2, clipboard, \r\n, \n, All
SendInput {Raw}%clipboard2%
return

In fact, it relies on keystrokes and consequently on keyboard layout! So when you are, as I am, unfortunate to have only an AZERTY keyboard, your suggestion just does not work. And worse, I found no easy way to replace SendInput method or twist its environment to fix this. For example SendInput "1" just does not send digit 1.

I had to turn every character into its unicode to make it work on my computer:

#EscapeChar \

; Paste in command window.
^V::
StringReplace clipboard2, clipboard, \r\n, \n, All
clipboard3 := ""
Loop {
    if (a_index>strlen(clipboard2))
     break 
    char_asc := Asc(SubStr(clipboard2, a_Index, 1))   
    if (char_asc > 127 and char_asc < 256)
     add_zero := "0"
    else
     add_zero := "" 
    clipboard3 :=  clipboard3  . "{Asc " .  add_zero . char_asc . "}"
}
SendInput %clipboard3%
return

Not very simple...

Answer 3

If you use the clipboard manager Ditto (open source, gratis), you can simply use the shortcut to paste from Ditto, and it will paste the clipboard in CMD for you.