Zap and the global clipboard

As I use Zap to create blog posts, and paste them into NetSurf for upload, I thought I’d mention that Zap (as supplied) can actually interact with the system-wide clipboard system.

The obvious, and very RISC OS, way of transferring a section of text in an editor to a text box in the browser is to click open the menu, go to Save, pick up the icon, and drag it over to the text box. The text will then magically appear.
[for parts of text, select it and save selection]

This is a lot of mouse use. There’s a simpler way. Needs Zap. I would imagine StrongEd can do similar (it always can ☺) but I don’t know the keypresses.

Simply select the desired text, and then press ^E. This will place it into the global clipboard. It can be retrieved in the browser using the standard ^V keypress.

If you want to be completely mouse-less, ^Space will start a selection. Move the cursors (hint, PageDown works too), and press ^Space again to stop the selection. ^E to copy it all out.

To work in the reverse direction, to paste into Zap something that was copied in the browser, ^Y is your friend.

If you have CoolSwitch running, the entire process can be done quickly from the keyboard.

• PageUp to get to the top of the file.
• ^Space, hold down PageDown until you’re at the end, ^Space
• ^E
• Alt-Tab to switch to the browser.
• (you might need the mouse here if the text box doesn’t have input)
• ^V

Done. ;-)

Hope this helps.

Note that this is with the default keymap. It’s been decades since I modified the keymap on my machine to let ^C and ^V behave as ^E and ^Y.

I like Zap’s send text feature, as that would get text in to applications with non standard input fields, which wouldn’t accept it any other way.

I like Zap’s send text feature, as that would get text in to applications with non standard input fields, which wouldn’t accept it any other way.

+1

Hope this helps.

it does, thx, did not know that tbh.