Quickly send long text in AutoHotkey

Question

I've been trying to figure out how to insert/expand long text faster. The current keystroke method I'm using is quite time consuming and therefore something I would rather avoid.

Right now I am using the following method:

::abc::all bad cats

Or for longer text:

::li::
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

However the second method is a little slow.

Any suggestions for how I can avoid this slow expansion method? Perhaps by using the clipboard to copy and paste from the AHK script?

Answer 1

Try this:

::li::
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; save the entire clipboard to the variable ClipSaved
clipboard := ""           ; empty the clipboard (start off empty to allow ClipWait to detect when the text has arrived)
clipboard =               ; copy this text:
(
Lorem ipsum dolor ...
line2
..
)
ClipWait, 2              ; wait max. 2 seconds for the clipboard to contain data. 
if (!ErrorLevel)         ; If NOT ErrorLevel, ClipWait found data on the clipboard
    Send, ^v             ; paste the text
Sleep, 300
clipboard := ClipSaved   ; restore original clipboard
ClipSaved =              ; Free the memory in case the clipboard was very large.
return

https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Clipboard.htm