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I love this thing so far. I recently switched to using Mint instead of OSX because I refuse to pay $2300 for a 15" MBP. I was really missing the clipboard ability of Alfred, and this is REALLY helpful.

Would it be possible to auto paste the clipboard result when you select it?

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I would LOVE auto paste, but I've not found a good way to do this in Electron yet. ]:

If you know how, let me know :D

I've not used electron but can't you simply invoke Applescript or use a shell command? Checkout pbcopy + pbpaste utilities or use applescript:

    $ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down'

I realize this isn't cross platform but there should be similar methods in other OS'es.

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