Navigate through clips and copy them without opening CopyQ

[francwalter]

Hello

I need a way to navigate through the clips down and up and copy older clips without opening the main window of CopyQ.
I used to use the global Shortcuts for it, the both "Paste and copy next" and "Paste and copy previous" but when I have the main window open, this does some weird double copy effects and my clips are multiplicated.

Is there a way to paste the next entry (the second in the list) when the main window is not visible and do the same when it is in foreground without messing up my clips by double copying them?

My "workflow" is this: I have copied some clips, e.g. 1 to 5 in some text and now I am in another text editing and want to paste the clips I copied earlier one after another, e.g. clip 5 to clip 1. So I first do CTRL+V (for the actual clip), then the magic shortcut to change the actual clip to number 4 and with CTRL+V this pastes number 4 into my text, then maybe to times the magical shortcut and with CTRL+V I paste number 2 etc.

Thanks for hints.
I try with AutoHotkey but I think that is overkill and CopyQ can handle that alone :)
frank

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CopyQ 16 on Windows 11

[francwalter]

At the moment I indeed use AutoHotkey with these Shortcuts:

#IfWinActive ahk_exe copyq.exe
!a::Send {Down}
!s::Send {Up}
#IfWinActive

and in CopyQ I use as Shortcut:

Paste and copy next: ALT+A
Paste and copy previous: ALT+S

So when CopyQ is closed the global Shortcut of CopyQ is used and if it is open (WinActive) then the AHK Shortcuts are "stronger".
But I think that could be maybe done really only with CopyQ, aint it?