Hints for using bridgeCommand (or if anyone knows of any way to manipulate the clipboard in the editor with js)

[TRIAEIOU]

Hi,

Does anyone know where to find pointers on how to use the bridgeCommand? I want to manipulate the clipboard in the editor and AFAIK the webengine won’t allow it through JS so it seems I have to do it from the python end. Basically I just want to run a regex (or two) on the clipboard before pasting when using a specific shortcut (ctrl+alt+v or whatever). The idea of the functionality is a flexible “paste without formating”, one could envisage a little more complex functionality like trying to find lists from bullet symbols etc. and creating HTML lists etc.

Cheers

[ijgnd]

maybe useful:

• you could copy and modify the paste function from editor.py? Glutanimate has an unpublished add-on “html cleaner” that has a custom paste function that pastes “cleaned” html code, see html-cleaner/editor.py at 27f9d7ca2c5cef2b90fc8ed0255671aaae50ca05 · glutanimate/html-cleaner · GitHub
• you could check some small editor related add-ons to see how they set up shortcuts.

the anki developer damien/dae recently published a zip of all add-on code, the link is at PEP8 pylib by RumovZ · Pull Request #1443 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

[TRIAEIOU]

Thanks, I was wondering if it might be possible just to call bridgeCommand from JS to reach the Anki built-in functions to get the clipboard content, modify it in JS and then bridgeCommand back to Anki built-in paste function: net effect, the mod itself would only be JS, no need to install anything.

My python is crap, I was hoping for a quick dirty hack.