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Newlines don't work

Open Unscrewed opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

Using \n does not work to create a new line. Is this a bug? It would be EXTREMELY useful for me!

Unscrewed avatar May 25 '16 20:05 Unscrewed

I think the service just dumps the content of clipboard as a single log message which shows up in a single line. It should be fairly straight forward to split the text into lines and log these lines individually.

Do you want to send a pull request to do this? I will merge it in.

On May 25, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Unscrewed [email protected] wrote:

Using \n does not work to create a new line. Is this a bug? It would be EXTREMELY useful for me!

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majido avatar May 26 '16 00:05 majido

I think the service just dumps the content of clipboard as a single log message which shows up in a single line. It should be fairly straight forward to split the text into lines and log these lines individually. Do you want to send a pull request to do this? I will merge it in.

@majido Thanks for your fast response! I tried to download android studio and import the project files and do it myself, but I really have no clue what I'm doing to be honest. If you are willing to make this feature, I will surely donate you if you have PayPal! If you are interested of course.

I have a chatbot that needs to reply fast, and now I have to set clipboard, paste, press enter for a new line, set clipboard again with the new line, paste, press enter, etc... which is a painfully long and inefficient process. I'd rather just be able to set all lines at once.

Thanks in advance!

Unscrewed avatar May 26 '16 01:05 Unscrewed

Newlines already work, you just need to send them properly. Like so:

NL=$'\n'; am broadcast -a clipper.set -e text "Line one${NL}Line two"

or better:

am broadcast -a clipper.set -e text "$(echo "Line one\nLine two")"

Spikatrix avatar Feb 25 '21 14:02 Spikatrix