Can't emulate basic "global hotkey to paste second-most-recent item" functionality

[TuggyNE]

CopyQ is a lot more sophisticated than other clipboard managers I've used, but I can't get it to do the single most basic building block of my clipboard workflow: use a global hotkey to paste what I had just before the current clipboard (usually, though not necessarily, switching it to also be the new current clipboard). (Fortunately, I have been able to do the second-most important thing: ignore password managers.)

I looked at #971, but the first command there doesn't work at all, since it always focuses the CopyQ window instead of whatever window I used the hotkey from, which means it adds a new line to the history (rather than simply moving an existing one around), and doesn't actually do any useful pasting. (It's also technically picking the second-to-oldest item, which is a bizarre interpretation of "second-to-last", but easy to fix by using index 1).

I'm using macOS Catalina, and CopyQ is allowed to do accessibility things with other windows: double-clicking on clipboards will correctly paste as expected. Restarting CopyQ doesn't fix anything.

[hluk]

I looked at #971, but the first command there doesn't work at all, since it always focuses the CopyQ window instead of whatever window I used the hotkey from

That's strange, the command should not show the main application window. If the main window is already visible, you can add hide() or focusPrevious() before the select() line.

[TuggyNE]

I also made some tweaks to the code in case the JS auto-semicolon insertion wasn't quite doing what I expected. Final version, which now works:

copyq:
    focusPrevious()
    var numberOfItems = count()
    if (numberOfItems < 2) abort()
    
    select(1)
    paste()