MetaEditor MT4 has a built-in clipboard tracking feature that monitors the clipboard in real-time to provide quick access to recently copied data (via Alt+V). This is a useful feature for coding, but it causes a significant problem when using third-party tools that rely on the Windows clipboard to send text to a terminal (e.g. AI coding assistants integrated in Visual Studio).
When MetaEditor MT4 is running, any application that writes to the clipboard and waits for it to be released experiences a delay of ~30 seconds before the clipboard is available. This makes it practically impossible to use AI coding extensions alongside MetaEditor.
This option was already introduced in **MetaTrader 5 Build 2690**: the ability to enable/disable clipboard tracking via Tools → Options → General → "Enable clipboard history". The same option would be very welcome in MetaEditor MT4.
**Request:** Please add a checkbox in Tools → Options → General to disable clipboard tracking in MetaEditor MT4, as already available in MT5.
Thank you.
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