Feature request: Global hotkey for pasting multiple copied items in order

[rh1363]

Hello Lukas / CopyQ team,

I hope you are doing well, and thank you for your excellent work on CopyQ.

I would like to suggest a feature and get your guidance. I often copy several separate pieces of text (for example, four snippets) and want to paste them all at once, preserving the order in which they were copied (FIFO: first copied → first pasted).

The ideal behavior would include a global hotkey that allows one of the following:

1. Sequential paste: Pressing the hotkey pastes each clipboard item in order, one after another, without bringing the CopyQ UI to the foreground.

2. Concatenate-and-paste: Combine selected or last-N items into a single clipboard entry (preserving order) and paste it with one action.

I am using CopyQ v13.0.0 on Windows. My main goal is a smooth workflow for pasting multiple items efficiently, while respecting their chronological order, via a hotkey.

Could you advise if there is an existing recommended approach, or if this could be considered as a feature in a future release? Any guidance on possible workarounds or scripting approaches would be appreciated.

Thank you very much for your time and for maintaining CopyQ.

Best regards,
Reza
Windows — CopyQ 13.0.0

[hluk]

• Sequential paste: Pressing the hotkey pastes each clipboard item in order, one after another, without bringing the CopyQ UI to the foreground.

How would you choose with just one shortcut which items to paste?

• Concatenate-and-paste: Combine selected or last-N items into a single clipboard entry (preserving order) and paste it with one action.

This is already supported. Select multiple items in CopyQ and press enter (the paste operation needs to be enabled in Preferences).

Some related issues: #597, #751, #1076