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cranioscopical:
This "one-step" process is actually very useful in doing things like converting a line of text from one case to another, etc.
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It certainly is useful, especially with both recent and favorite clips in sub-folders, which largely obviates the need to open the text-processing sub-menu.

rjbull:

* CHS doesn't have a way to auto-apply formatting every time you copy something to clipboard per se, BUT you can do it all in one step!  Just select the text in question and then trigger the text formatting preset (rather than copy first) -- see more detailed instructions below.
* But what it will do is let you create+configure a whole bunch of different custom search+replace/reformat/etc presets and show them on a quick pop-up menu for you to apply to text you have just captured while you paste it.
* It comes with some of these text formatting presets that do things like convert the case of the text just copied.-mouser (October 08, 2007, 08:46 AM)
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Mouser,

CHS comes with a rich set of features for twiddling text, especially if you want to clean up e-mails etc.  But it only has a single search-and-replace slot, so you can only change one string per preset, and you can't add external user-defined tools to a preset, as far as I can see.  Is that right?  That's what I was after in this thread: Configuring CHS user tools

At that time I was trying to use A. Pipkin's "Ministry of Truth" utility (developed on Linux, I suspect), and couldn't get it to work because it doesn't understand Windows LFNs properly - pity, because it's powerful and otherwise works well:
MiniTrue home page
MiniTrue enthusiast: Eric Pement's SED page - scroll down to Console/command-line apps
On no account overlook Eric Pement's supplementary tricks and traps page

Unable to make MiniTrue work properly, I changed to a SED script... but it would be much more useful if it could be incorporated into a CHS preset.  Currently, I've just put the same SED script into TED Notepad as a user-defined text filter.

blackcat:
@Jabberwock

what about HovText

HovText is a small freeware and open source Windows application that removes any formatting from the clipboard and it also works as a simple clipboard manager. Any text in the clipboard will be pasted as raw text without any HTML code, font size, color or layout etc. HovText remembers also the last 10 copied texts (both formatted and unformatted) and you can filter out whatever text you need with regular expressions.
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screenshots
http://hovklan.com/downloads/hovtext/2.0/images/en_options.png
http://hovklan.com/downloads/hovtext/2.0/images/en_history.png
http://hovklan.com/downloads/hovtext/2.0/images/en_filters.png

mouser:
rjbull:

* i should add some extra search and replace slots shouldn't i? i'll put it on my todo list.
* are you saying the external tools configuration is still not working for you, or you are wanting to do something else besides what the current system is designed to do?

rjbull:
i should add some extra search and replace slots shouldn't i? i'll put it on my todo list.
-mouser (October 09, 2007, 10:17 AM)
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Thanks!    :Thmbsup:

are you saying the external tools configuration is still not working for you,
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The external tools configuration is working for me - once I picked the right tool   :mad:  Maybe I'm not good enough to get MTR (32-bit version of MiniTrue) to work here, or maybe its LFN handling is too restricted.

or you are wanting to do something else besides what the current system is designed to do?
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In a way, yes.  I'd like to be able to add external tools to the Formatting Presets menu on the pop-up, which doesn't seem to be currently possible.

Are you aware of the following:


* It seems impossible to delete a formatting preset.
* CHS has two rather different uses of the word "Preset" - one in the sense used here, and another from the main menu, where it means the appearance of the main window.

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