Pastefix

Zero-friction clipboard optimizer for pasting terminal commands on Windows.

Pastefix is a lightweight Windows background tray app. It automatically cleans and optimizes commands copied from AI chat windows (ChatGPT, Claude) or web pages so that pressing Ctrl+V or right-clicking in your terminal pastes clean, runnable commands in one go.

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What It Fixes

• Cross-Shell Continuations: Automatically joins lines ending in \, backtick, &&, or | into single executable commands.
• Broken Command Lines: Reconnects split lines when flags (like --flag or -m) or operators (|) wrap to the next line.
• Common Indentation (Dedent): Strips outer margins while preserving internal relative indents for Python, YAML, and here-strings.
• Empty Pipeline Errors: Drops empty lines between pipes to prevent PowerShell EmptyPipeElement parser errors.

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How It Works

1. Copy as Usual: When you copy any text (Ctrl+C), Pastefix automatically optimizes the clipboard in the background within 300ms.
2. Paste Directly: Switch to your terminal (WezTerm, Windows Terminal, PowerShell, etc.) and simply press Ctrl+V or right-click to paste.
3. No New Hotkeys: Operates entirely through standard clipboard events — no global hotkey conflicts and no keyboard interception.

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Download & Usage

1. Download the latest PasteFix.exe from Releases.
2. Run PasteFix.exe. It sits quietly in the Windows system tray notification area (under the ^ hidden icons menu).
3. (Optional) To launch on Windows startup, place a shortcut to PasteFix.exe in your shell:startup folder.

• Standalone Executable: Single self-contained binary with embedded runtime (~51 MB, no installation needed).
• Single-Instance: Automatically prevents multiple background instances.
• Config & Logs: Stored locally in %APPDATA%\PasteFix.