Drafts Directory: Show invisibles in clipboard

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Posted by @ComplexPoint, Last update over 6 years ago

Display textual clipboard contents,
with non-printing characters (tabs, spaces, newlines etc), made visible.

Useful, for example, for spotting unexpected mixtures of tabs and spaces.

Displays a dialog showing a view of the clipboard contents like:

Project:\n
\t-.with.a.mixture.of.tabs\n
....-.and.multiple.spaces\n
...-.possibly.of.inconsistent.number\n
\t-.etc\n
\t-.and.so.forth

Install

Steps

script

(() => {
    'use strict';

    const
        strClip = app.getClipboard() || '',
        strVisible = (strClip.length > 0 ? (
            JSON.stringify(strClip) // Visible escapes,
            .slice(1, -1)           // without flanking quotes,
            .replace(/ /g, '.')     // using . to show spaces,
            .split('\\n')           // and breaking the string
        ) : []).join('\\n\n'),      // into lines with visible \n
        p = Object.assign(
            Prompt.create(), {
                title: 'Invisibles in clipboard',
                message: 'Non-printing chars shown as:\n\n' +
                    'tab: \\t\nlinefeed: \\n\nspace: .'
            }
        );
    return (
        p.addTextView(
            'txt',
            'in clipboard:',
            strVisible, {
                height: 240
            }
        ),
        p.show(),
        strVisible
    );
})()

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