I play EU for a while, and I often use Auction. I do some trading daily. I need to find something in Auction, and typing the items' names might be extremely annoying if you need to do that like 10 times a day. So, well, I use the "Copy Item Link" button a lot. But whenever you paste the copied name into the Search field in Auction, it pastes like this: [Standard Plate], [Robot Weapon Grip], etc.
with these [...] square brackets in the first and last symbols. This is a cool feature when you need to send the link in the chat, but, well, not that great if you need it for Auction Search. Because a sequence of "click->Home->Delete->End->BackSpace->Enter", to remove them, frankly again could be annoying if you need to do that 10-20 per use, like hundreds of times per day.
I'm not a Software Engineer, but I finally put some time into creating a simple application (all merit to ChatGPT thing, which can make you do things like that). So now I am happy to share this simple application. Just download, unpack, and run (should work okay in Windows 10, 11). When you need to fix brackets, just hit CTRL-SHIFT-F, this will turn it ON. And when it is ON, whenever you copy something [with square brackets], it will delete those brackets on paste.
with these [...] square brackets in the first and last symbols. This is a cool feature when you need to send the link in the chat, but, well, not that great if you need it for Auction Search. Because a sequence of "click->Home->Delete->End->BackSpace->Enter", to remove them, frankly again could be annoying if you need to do that 10-20 per use, like hundreds of times per day.
I'm not a Software Engineer, but I finally put some time into creating a simple application (all merit to ChatGPT thing, which can make you do things like that). So now I am happy to share this simple application. Just download, unpack, and run (should work okay in Windows 10, 11). When you need to fix brackets, just hit CTRL-SHIFT-F, this will turn it ON. And when it is ON, whenever you copy something [with square brackets], it will delete those brackets on paste.
- Here is https://github.com/DanTarBu/MAtools/blob/main/copy-paste-fixer.py code, so you can compile it yourself. Also, you can find a zip-archive (split into 3 parts, due to GitHub restrictions of 25 MB file size).
- Here is a screenshot of the interface: https://github.com/DanTarBu/MAtools/blob/main/copypastefixer.jpg
- and here is the link for direct download: https://data40.com/arch/copy-paste-fixer.zip