AppendText (Accumulated Copying)

AppendText add-on is designed for copying text, but the copying process occurs through accumulation in a text buffer.
That means you copied a line or selected area, then you continue reading and moving through the text, and need to copy another fragment of text. In general, you are copying fragments,
and then at the right place, you paste everything that is in the text buffer with one action, and your separate fragments will be inserted into the location you chose, each separated by an empty line.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• NVDA+Shift+C - Copy selected text to clipboard, double tap will copy the latest text from the system clipboard.
• NVDA+Shift+V - Paste accumulated fragments from the buffer.
• NVDA+Shift+X - Delete the last added fragment, and double-clicking will immediately clear the entire contents of the clipboard.
• NVDA+Shift+Z - Listen to the accumulated fragments in the buffer; if there are more than 1024 characters, only the number of characters in the buffer will be announced.

You can change these keyboard shortcuts in the input gestures section under AppendText.

Changelog

Version 26.03.10

• Available with API NVDA 2026.

Version 25.02.26

* * The logic has been changed and improved before adding texts in any way to check for hash sum matches. If there is already an identical fragment in the virtual clipboard, a message will be sent stating that identical text has already been added to the clipboard.

Version 25.02.23

• Added a function to remove the last added fragment from the text repository.
• The NVDA+Shift+X key combination now supports both single press and double press.
• The shortcut for clearing the repository has been changed: Delete the last added fragment, and double-clicking will immediately clear the entire contents of the clipboard.
• When removing each last fragment from the repository, you will receive a message ("Last added fragment was removed from the repository"), and after removing all fragments, you’ll get a message ("Repository cleared"). This same message appears when you use the command with a double press.
• Updated translation and help documentation.

Version 25.02.21

• Added copying of the latest text from the system clipboard to the clipboard.
• NVDA+Shift+C - Copy selected text to clipboard, double tap will copy the latest text from the system clipboard.
• A corresponding message has been added for double tapping.
• Added text identity verification using text normalization. If such a text is already in clipboard, it will not be added.
• Translation updated.

Version 25.02.15

• Compatible with NVDA API 2025.1
• Fixed issue with pasting text fragments.
• Fixed encoding problem with pasted text.
• Added ability to customize keyboard shortcuts.
• Command shortcuts placed in a category named after the add-on in input gestures.
• Improved message output when performing various actions.

Version 1.2.3

• Compatible with NVDA API 2024.1

Version 1.2.2

• The command to paste text from the buffer does not work, but instead, you can use the usual Control+v command.
• In this case, the text from the buffer will be pasted correctly and in the correct encoding.
• Tested on NVDA 2023.3.

Version 1.2.1

• Compatible with NVDA API 2022.1
• From this version, updates to the add-on come from another user.

Version 1.1

• Compatibility up to NVDA 2019.3.2.1
• Bug fix: gesture management added. Now NVDA+Shift+C can be used in Excel tables.
• Date: 30/01/2013.

Version 1.0

• Initial release.
• Date: 28/12/2012