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Would it be possible to have a renaming function using the content of the clipboard?

I do lot of copy and past from internet pages e.g. movie titles. Ant renamer has drastically cut down the renaming time to the point where copy a title from a webpage and rename a directory (before running the ant renamer macro) is actually taking the most of the time.

Would it be difficult/possible to have a rename function saying: rename using content of clipboard?

In my case that would be the first operation of the macro.

Appreciated!

How would it work? I mean, if you have a list of titles there is already an action to use such list...

Basically I use ant renamer calling a saved macro via windows explorer integration.
That means when I right click on a directory I find the option I created called e.g ."Rename with ant renamer macro 1"

Since the stuff I download has random names I now have
1) a site giving me the right names, not exactly as I need but at least in a consistent way
2) the correct macro thanks to your help to rename stuff as I need.

In this regards having a renaming function I would add at the beginning of the macro called e.g. "use content of the clipboard as filename" and then applying regular expressions and other operation. This would transform my boring renaming task in a 2 click operation.

Just an idea

P.S. I did find the ant rename shell integration amazing! But had to manually edit the registry and find my way, not a big deal but...
Have you ever considered adding an option within ant renamer to "add to context menu"? I guess other users would love this.

I should add that integration to the install or somewhere in the program, but as I haven't updated it since some time it is still on my to-do list.

Your clipboard thing seems quite specific, in your case making your own script using VBS (or what replaced in case it is not in use in Windows) may be a better approach.