Typing Mode

Choose how Blue Synergy inserts the expansion — clipboard paste or character-by-character.

Two modes control how trigger text is delivered to the target app. Paste is faster; Type works in apps that block clipboard paste.

Modes

Mode How it works Speed Best for
Paste (default) Writes expansion to clipboard, sends Ctrl+V Fast Most apps — browsers, editors, Office
Type Sends each character individually via keyboard emulation Slower RDP sessions, apps that block Ctrl+V, locked-down forms

Global setting

  1. Open Settings → Triggers.
  2. Set Typing Mode to Paste or Type.
  3. Optionally set Typing Speed (ms per character, Type mode only).

Applies to all triggers set to Default.

Per-trigger override

  1. Select a trigger and press Ctrl+E to edit.
  2. Open the Settings tab.
  3. Change Typing Mode to Default, Paste (fast, clipboard), or Type (char-by-char).

Speed and delay tokens (TXT steps)

Inside any TXT step you can control timing at token level:

Token Effect
{DELAY:N} Pause N milliseconds before continuing
{DELAY:N,"text"} Type the quoted text at N ms per character
{SPEED:N} Set per-character delay to N ms for all text that follows in this step

These tokens work in both Paste and Type modes — the delay is a sleep, not a typing speed change, unless you use {DELAY:N,"text"} or {SPEED:N}.

Tips & gotchas

  • Paste overwrites the clipboard. If you rely on your last copied item immediately after a trigger fires, use Type or add a {DELAY:500} before the expansion to give the app time to register.
  • Type is slower but invisible to clipboard monitoring — useful when you don’t want the expansion to appear in clipboard history.
  • {SPEED:N} with N=0 is the same as default Paste speed.
  • Typing speed can also be set globally in Settings → Triggers → Typing Speed (ms).

Configuration

Setting Default Description
triggers.typing_mode paste Global mode: paste or type
triggers.typing_speed_ms 0 Global per-character delay in ms (Type mode)

Find these under Settings → Triggers.

See also