can somebody help to write a autohotkey script for select all the pasted content after paste? - autohotkey

Question

the autohotkey script should do follows:
after I tap the hotkey,
it will paste the content from the clipboard, then immediately select all the pasted content?
I write a script as follows:
^+p::
clipvar:=Clipboard
num:=strlen(clipvar)
send ^v
send +{left %num%}
return
This script works.
But the selecting process is too slow!!!
Can somebody write a better script?

Answer 1

SendMode, Input optionally combined with SetBatchLines, -1 and variations of SetKeyDelay can accelerate key sequences.
However, the selection of large texts will still take some time, and slow machines may slow it down even further.
Here's another approach which - in terms of sending keystrokes - is more efficient:
^+p::
oldCaretX := A_CaretX
oldCaretY := A_CaretY
Send, ^v
WaitForCaretChange()
MouseGetPos, mX, mY
MouseClickDrag, Left, %A_CaretX%, %A_CaretY%, %oldCaretX%, %oldCaretY%
MouseMove, %mX%, %mY%
return
WaitForCaretChange() {
oldCaretX := A_CaretX
oldCaretY := A_CaretY
while(A_CaretX = oldCaretX && A_CaretY = oldCaretY) {
Sleep, 15
}
}
This code relies on the window to expose the caret position, which unfortunately, not every window does. It remembers the caret position before the paste and selects text up to the old position after pasting new text; this should be equal to selecting all the newly inserted text. If you're only working with editors that expose their caret position, I recommend you go with this one since it's faster. Otherwise, you can still think about using both your method and this one, depending on the window and/or the text length.