If it contains text, send it to the command-line. For instance, if the clipboard contains drawing data, let the PASTECLIP command have at it. This really sounded like an interesting little problem but also a very useful bit of functionality: basically you could have AutoCAD change its “paste” behaviour based on the type of data in the clipboard. Maybe this is just running a little function that runs before paste. I would want the “enhanced paste” routine to be able to run inside any other command gracefully. Its the transparent part I have never done. So I think I need to write a transparent function, make a command in the CUI that runs the function, and assign ctrl-v to it. I already tried removing the keyboard shortcuts to ctrl-v via the cui, and that just makes ctrl-v not do anything when command line does not have focus. I do not use ctrl-v for pasting entities, only text to command line. I thought this might be a topic you would be interested in. I genuinely didn’t think I’d manage to look into it before the break, but it tweaked my interest during my trip back from the UK: This was a fun question that came in from James Meading.

Autocad copy vs copyclip