can you drag the problematic item out of the clipboard manager into an other app?
yep, this works. After the drag I still cannot paste it using a shortcut.
ok, then BTT seems to have saved the item correctly.
Does hitting the "plain text" button cause it to paste? Otherwise it almost sounds like sending the cmd+v shortcut to trigger the system paste fails - but that would also be quite weird because it works for other items
I forgot to mention - it doesn't work if I manually go to Edit/Paste in any app, e.g. Firefox, Teams, Safari.
Does hitting the "plain text" button cause it to paste?
Yes, it was pasted, but afterwards it started working with the shortcut and with app menu item. So this is having same effect like copying it using "Just copy" or similar action - it is ... reseting whatever it was stuck.
are you using the "Selected Text Did Change" trigger I recently added to BTT (unrelated to clipboard manager)?
Yes, I am.
I might have some vague idea what could cause this. I think maybe it is related to BTT's clipboard manager not showing "empty" items anymore since a few version, but somehow being confused when trying to paste while there is some empty content in the clipboard. I'll need to look deeper into this.
I think in some scenarios the "Text Selection Did Change" trigger causes an empty item to be copied - I'm not yet sure why/when that happens.
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Are you referring to actual "empty" items? Because I've just manged to copy "empty" item, by just yanking an empty line in vim:
BTT Version: 5.201 (2025021702)
correct an empty line is still something that is valid, these are still being shown
unfortunately looking at the code I can't see any reason why it would not paste even in such a case.
Could you check whether the logs in ~/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool/Logs contain this string?
paste ETURN
//edit: one thing I couldn't see from your video, does double-clicking the item or hitting enter to paste also fail? (I'm struggling a bit to see the difference between just copy and the standard paste via double-click / enter)
No matches
I have not tested exactly these two actions, but if do "Just copy" or "Plain text" or I guess any action from within the Clipboard Manager this "resets" it and the paste start works normally. Also double-click I've mapped to "Copy and move to top" so I guess it is not a valid test.
Ah! In that case the problem is most likely not with the clipboard manager but with the "Text Selection Did Change" trigger.
//edit: maybe I have found the reason why that trigger would sometimes copy an empty string, if so it should be fixed in 5.204 (uploading)
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I thought it was fixed, but I've just faced it again. The above command (grep 'paste ETRUN'.....) still returns "No matches", drag&drop still works and the other "workarounds" (any action from clipboard manger) to make it work again still works.
version 5.214
What's the purpose of "Duplicate item when editing" ? To me it sounds like - if I start to edit a copied item on the right side, it will create a duplicate item which will be the edited version.
Btw is there a way to edit an item and confirm/save the changes which will replace the original? At the moment I'm doing edit on the right side and then copying to save my changes, which however results in new item.
It should do that, but you are right it doesn't seem to work currently. I'll check!
If you disable the "duplicate item when editing", it should edit &save to your original item. This seems to work here.
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I think the "Duplicate item when editing" is fixed - thanks for this. Is there a way to way to confirm/save the changes without clicking the "finish editing", e.g. assign a shortcut to this action. At the moment if I press "CMD + Y" while on the right panel, the clipboard is closed, the changes are saved, item is duplicated, but I cannot paste it - similar to the issue I have described earlier in this topic.
you can press cmd+s to save
I think your issue is that you are trying to paste from the system clipboard, but you'd need to paste from BTT's clipboard manager because the edited item has never been copied to the system clipboard
Oh yeah, "cmd + s" works, but I think it is a bit confusing, since "cmd+s" is "Save As", which is saving the item as a file, if the item is selected in the table / middle panel.
I was too fast - "cmd + s" works to only confirm/save the changes, but then how I can copy it using shortcuts? It seems that "cmd + p" / "Plain text" (and possibly other actions) is
- Automatically saving the changes
- Edited item is copied to the system clipboard
- Closing the clipboard
- Edited item is actually pasted
But "cmd + y" does not have the same way of work - it's only:
- Saving the changes
- Closing the clipboard
At the moment only 2nd action from "Copy & Move to Top" is executed - item is not copied to the system clipboard if I'm in the right panel. Actually I think "cmd+y" is not doing even than, the duplicated item is always moved to top
@Andreas_Hegenberg , is there any way to go to a specific "Snippet" group or to a specific "Saved search"? I was planing to use Tab key to select the different elements in the clipboard, but the only element on the left side which is being selected using tab is "All Items".
I think if we can assign different shortcuts for them somehow will be great.