CTimmerman/type_clipboard.ahk

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	; win + v
	#v::
	SendRaw %clipboard%

penguinairlines commented Jan 3, 2019

Thanks!

I'll note that this did not completely solve my problem since RDP captures my hotkeys, but I got around it by adding a simple pause before the SendRaw. This allows me to copy string on client, initiate type script on client, re-focus active window to RDP or SSH session, script will type the clipboard text which is forwarded to the remote session.

					; win + v to activate this hotkey
#v::
Sleep, 2000 		; pause 2 seconds
SendRaw %clipboard% ; type clipboard contents.

If anyone knows which hotkeys are/aren't captured by RDP then this could be avoided with a more complex hotkey, but I couldn't find this information quickly and found this to be a decent enough solution for myself and got back to work.

P.S. Sorry for the weird tab formatting. Apparently gist can't support replies file types other than images. I'd love to stand corrected on this.

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