I Got Tired of Hunting Screenshot Paths in Terminals. So I Fixed Ctrl+V.

The Idea The fix seemed obvious: Ctrl+V should be context-aware. If I'm in a terminal and I have an image on my clipboard, I probably want the file path, not the image data. If I'm in a text editor...

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I Got Tired of Hunting Screenshot Paths in Terminals. So I Fixed Ctrl+V.

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The Idea The fix seemed obvious: Ctrl+V should be context-aware. If I'm in a terminal and I have an image on my clipboard, I probably want the file path, not the image data. If I'm in a text editor, paste normally. If I'm in a browser, paste normally. The key insight is that the behavior should be invisible. I didn't want a new command to memorize. I wanted Ctrl+V to just do the right thing depending on where I was. How It Works TCP has two layers. The keyboard layer is an AutoHotkey v2 script that runs in the background as a tray process. It intercepts Ctrl+V at the OS level. When you press it, AHK checks which window is focused. If it's a terminal, it hands off to the Python core. If it's not, it does nothing and lets the normal paste go through. The Python core handles the logic: Inspect the clipboard — is there image data? If yes: check the OS screenshot folder for a file that matches, using a recency window (default: 5 seconds). If the screenshot was captured in the last 5 seconds

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