Copy on select text?

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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Apologies, if this is very simple, I am new to this sort of software. I want any text I highlight to automatically be sent to my clipboard so I can easily paste it. However, I just can't make this work. I don't want to use a modifier but if I check allowing it to work without a modifier then my mouse doesn't work.

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You can use the relatively new "Text Selection Did Change" trigger. As an action you could either just send cmd+c (to copy the selection), but a less intrusive way is to use this little Java Script:

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async function addToClipboard() {
   // the text selection did change trigger already makes the BTTTextSelection variable available, thus it's best to retrieve the text from that
   let BTTTextSelection = await get_string_variable("BTTTextSelection");
   await set_clipboard_content({content:BTTTextSelection, format: 'NSPasteboardTypeString'})
   return true;
}

Here is a ready to use example:
auto-copy.bttpreset (1.8 KB)

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This was working perfectly fine, but since past few days something strange is happening:

1. Even though I have enabled this only for the terminal, when I select text inside the Citrix Workspace app, it types the character "c" and replaces the selected word with "c". Because of this, I have to disable it for now.

2. Even if I only add the trigger "Text Selection Did Change" without any action and only for Terminal, it still affects text selection in the Citrix Workspace app.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling BTT, but that didn't help either.

I am on latest release version 6.365