"stay visible" not working - why?

PopClip Extensions
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I try to implement stay visible (GitHub - pilotmoon/PopClip-Extensions: Documentation and source code for PopClip extensions.) here, but I couldn’t get it to work. How should I implement it? Thanks

#popclip
name: Remove Wikilinks
icon: square filled monospaced ex[
javascript: popclip.pasteText(popclip.input.text.replace(/\[\[(?:[^|\]]*\|)?([^\]]+)\]\]/g, '$1'))
description: Removes wikilinks
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You would add a key stay visible: true to the snippet definition:

#popclip
name: Remove Wikilinks
icon: square filled monospaced ex[
javascript: popclip.pasteText("foo")
description: Removes wikilinks
stay visible: true

I removed the regex to simplify my example.

Here you can see it working in the intended way :

CleanShot 2023-03-28 at 07.24.14

However I’m not sure if stay visible would be useful to a text-transformation extension like this. It was intended for the “Bold Italic Underline” extension where people could apply or remove each style with subsequent clicks.

3

Whatever I do, stay visible has no effect.

What I tried to achive was an extension to remove syntax and then act on the previously already selected text with another exteions.

4

It won’t do that, I’m afraid. Each invocation with “stay visible” is identical, using the same “frozen” input. It doesn’t refresh the actions with new input; it just prevents the pop-up from disappearing.

What you want to do isn’t currently possible, but there is a discussion about this under Action Chaining, and it is still a strong possibility for a future feature.

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