I run a Linux emulator (or subsystem) under Windows 10, and sometimes I need to past Windows paths in the Linux console. Windows paths use backslashes \ to separate directories whereas Linux paths use forward slashes / instead.
To avoid having to replace the \ with / manually, I have tried using an AHK script to do the replacement on any path that I copy, but it doesn't want to work.
This is my script (I have marked in the code ##works until here##
the furthest point until where it seems to be working):
^+7:: ; Ctrl+Shift+7 (/)
;Empty the Clipboard.
Clipboard =
;Copy the select text to the Clipboard.
SendInput, ^c
;Wait for the Clipboard to fill.
ClipWait
;Perform the RegEx find and replace operation,
;where the needle is what we want to replace.
haystack := Clipboard
needle := "\"
replacement := "/"
result := RegExReplace(haystack, needle, replacement)
;Empty the Clipboard
Clipboard =
;Copy the result to the Clipboard.
Clipboard := result
;##works until here##
;Wait for the Clipboard to fill.
ClipWait
;-- Optional: --
;Send (paste) the contents of the new Clipboard.
SendInput, %Clipboard%
;Done!
return
Thanks in advance for any tips.