Paste
Paste is a small utility that enables multi-line/unlimited-length pasting of text or commands into WoW
If you've ever tried to paste a paragraph of text or a list of slash commands into WoW you've probably noticed that newlines are stripped and anything over 255 characters is silently truncated. The Paste addon solves this problem.
Usage:
- Open the Paste window via minimap icon, keybind, LDB or /paste show
- Paste your clipboard text into the box with control-v / command-v
- Press the "Paste" button and the entire contents will be sent to your selected channel, one message per line, with long lines automatically split.
- The "Default" channel can be used to execute a list of slash commands (eg TomTom /way commands)
- Options are available via "/paste config"
Fully compatible with WoW 7.x and all chat addons.
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Good ideas - adding in v1.3.0
Wow. I used to type each line into TomTom and that took me forever! This saved me so much time. This is such a great addon. Thanks so much for making this.
Love the addon, but I need to be able to paste to a Raid and Instance channel, with all the pugs and the LFR it helps if everyone is on the same page with the strat. So please add a /r for raid and a /I for instance to the drop down menu. Thanks and I hope you can make this happen.
Been using /Y for yelling but that seems messy
Addon v1.2.1 adds instance chat output. Raid was already there but the dropdown was a little glitchy and sometimes didn't show it. Note the dropdown only shows channels currently available to you (must be in a raid/instance group, etc)
Thank you
I can copy text from a website to my clipboard, but 'Ctrl+V' isn't doing anything when I try pasting in-game.
You need to have the paste window open with your cursor blinking in the edit box.
Fixed in v1.1.8
Thank you, looks all fine and dandy now!
Seems like text area frame anchors are wrong.
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I'd like to understand your usage case more.
Paste can be used to execute a list of slash commands, it does not "save" its contents or create a macro. As such, it's mostly for "one off" operations like importing a list of /way commands or running a long slash command program from wowhead. I don't see the utility of macro comments for either scenario. The paste function works "as if" you'd typed in each line yourself, and if you type in a line starting with a # it gets spoken.
Hi,
Pasted in a macro and the comment lines got said out loud. Not a terrible deal, but could we get the option to ignore lines that start with the # chracter?
(Used to use super duper macro, but that just got broken apparently... so now I'm rtying paste ;-) )
I need a little help! I am new to macros and add-on. This paste things sounds really good. Downloaded it and was able to paste what I wanted. But it does not seem to work. Once I have pasted what I want, how do I make it work? I tried typing /way in the chat line, but it does not recognize the command. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you
Paste just provides the means to easily paste in commands. If you want to use TomTom /way commands, you also need to install the TomTom addon. Sounds like that's what you're missing.
Hehe, of COURSE this is one of oscarucb addons.
Awesome addon, can't believe I've never thought of making this. This'll save me a ton of time. Nice job!
thank you very much
Sorry this is going to sound like a noob question. Maybe I don't understand.
How do you use this with tom tom?
Thank
It can be used to directly import tomtom waypoint lists from wowhead or other sites. So if someone has posted a list of /way commands, you can paste them in using this addon. The only other way to import a long list of /way commands is to create and execute single-use macros, which is very tedious and error-prone.
So Using this with Tomtom,
Will the way points be prioritized by the order of the lines you paste them as, or will it just point you to the closest to your currect location?