Keyboard shortcut to copy password
Matt Stith
Hey guys,
I'd love to have a keyboard shortcut to copy the password for the currently displayed login to the clipboard. I can't use autofill because this is the login info for many different servers, and afaik there are no wildcards possible in the domain in 1password. Right now the only time I have to take my hands off of the keyboard is to click the password to copy it.
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2 Posted by Brent Young on 31 Dec, 2011 02:58 AM
Hey there, Matt!
⌥⌘C (that's Option+Command+C) is what you're looking for!
I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask. And, as always, thanks for using 1Password! :)
Brent Young
Support Rover, AgileBits Inc.
https://agilebits.com/support
3 Posted by Matt Stith on 31 Dec, 2011 03:02 AM
Aha, hidden behind the Option key! Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!
4 Posted by Brent Young on 31 Dec, 2011 03:07 AM
Any time, Matt! If you need anything else, just ask. We are always here to help! :)
Brent Young
Support Rover, AgileBits Inc.
https://agilebits.com/support
5 Posted by Woody Peterson on 11 May, 2012 07:10 PM
Not that it's anyones problem but mine, but I already have a global shortcut for this key combo (plus it's extra keys to press). Is there a use case for the current behavior of ctrl-c that copies the whole card in... json, is that what it is? Would it be reasonable to allow users to have the normal command-c work as this page suggests? This is how keepassx works, and I noticed that the windows 1password has the equivalent behavior (plus double-copy copying the username, which is cool).
So: why the divergence in the Mac client, and is there any way (now or planned) to have password copying be the 'normal' copy behavior?
Support Staff 6 Posted by Kyle Swank on 11 May, 2012 07:16 PM
Hi Woody,
Thanks for taking the time to contact us with your question.
As the decision to which keyboard shortcut we use was determined far beyond the time I started here I couldn't give any clues as to why it was chosen this way.
I, personally, would like to see some changes to this, but I'm not sure how exactly we'd do this to make it obvious. The trouble comes from what CMD+C copies. Does it copy the username? the password? The obvious choice would be the password, but CMD+C typically binds to whatever is selected and in this case nothing would be selected (except for the whole item).
I know we are working on a major update to 1Password. This is certainly something we can take a closer look at in this next version to see what we can do to improve.
I know this doesn't give you a lot to work with, but I do want you to know your voice is heard. Hopefully the next version will make some changes here that make many of our users happier.
Cheers!
Kyle Swank
AgileBits Support
7 Posted by Woody Peterson on 11 May, 2012 08:41 PM
Thanks for the quick reply! I was mucking around with OS X's application shortcuts menu just now, and it turns out you can assign a shortcut to any menu item by exact name. I tried mapping command-c to "Copy Password" and it worked! So, problem solved ATM.
8 Posted by Stu Helm on 11 May, 2012 08:56 PM
That will indeed work, Woody, I use it myself for a few other features.
Stu Helm
Agile Crusader
AgileBits
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