How to expand text in Keyboard Maestro Editor

[avtraino]

Since @noisneil's macro is using the Insert Text by Pasting action (as opposed to Insert Text by Typing), the expansion text will replace whatever used to be at the "top" of the System Clipboard history.

See this post from @noisneil for the rest:

Inserting Text will replace the current memory of the clipboard :

The workaround most people use for this is to delete the past clipboard after using Insert Text by Pasting. There's a theoretical risk that the wrong clipboard item might be removed, as the timings of these actions are not conditional, but for the most-part it tends to work just fine in common practical applications. Clean Up Clipbboard.kmactions (981 Bytes) [image] It's nested in a repeat block so that, if several items are pasted sequentially, you can delete their clipboard entries, all in…

(and don't miss the link to Peter's warning)