TextEdit: Paste from clipboard

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#1

How about pasting text from the clipboard in TextEdit?

#2

Same kind of hack:

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "v" using {command down}
	end tell
end tell
-- or
tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke (the clipboard)
	end tell
end tell
#3

I doubt that would work if the clipboard isn’t text.

#4

There are more ramifications than that:
The second method doesn’t transmit any formatting - just text.
The first tranmits rtf if that is what was in the clipboard.
Interesting variation, no?

#5

Thanks. Interesting results.

#6

There’s an application called Koolclip which allows you to see all of the things you’ve copied to the clipboard for ages. Like a clipboard history. Anyone know how to browse back into your clipboard past with applescript?

#7

This doesn’t really have anything to do with the current thread. The clipboard itself doesn’t keep a history.

#8

sorry, I thought I was saving space