Can one enter text using Quick Commands?

isbd

If I create a command chain can it do something like the following:-

Go to a specific web page (i.e. one given in the command)
Either type some characters or load them into past buffer

Having done this can I make the resulting command appear at the top of the list that appears when I hit F2?

isbd

That should be "paste buffer" of course.

luetage

@isbd What command chain do you want to create? Typing text automatically doesn’t work, you can only work with selections or your clipboard.

isbd

If one could put text into the paste buffer then it would then be very easy to click on a text entry field and paste it there.

Even better would be a way to navigate to a field on the page and enter some text that you've provided in the command chain.

This is a very simple web page with just one text field on it, all I want to do is go to that page and put some text into the text field.

luetage

@isbd Since you keep it cryptic I tell you generally.

Select text or copy text to your clipboard
If 1. is a selection, use the copy command
Open your web page
Write a bookmarklet to focus the input field on that web page (open link in current tab)
Paste
Your command chain has ended, hit enter manually

isbd

But I want the text to be entered to be part of the command chain, that's the whole point, it's some text that I can't easily remember.

I want the stored command chain to have the text in it so that I don't have to remember it.

isbd

So the sequence I want in the command chain is:-

1 - Open web page in new tab (easy enough)

2 - Create some sort of usable text within the command chain, not text copied from somewhere else

3 - Make it possible to copy this text (maybe paste it) into a field on the newly opened page.

(By the way could you expand on your item 4 - Write a bookmarklet to focus the input field on that web page, how do you do that?)

luetage

@isbd If the text is fixed, you save it inside the bookmarklet. Google what a bookmarklet is and how to write one. You can see examples for bookmarklets used in command chains here ☛ https://gist.github.com/luetage/6a66af73a4dd264fcb05fe24926b2e36

isbd

OK, thanks for the explanation of bookmarklets. I remember I did use them for a while many years ago, I'll have to re-investigate them.