I have had the case once or twice in my career where it seemed that the clipboard had become stuck– copies did not replace previous content. Windows does keep items in multiple formats on the clipboard. Maybe this is where the clipboard history thing came from? Some feature in an orphaned branch of the windows family tree? But I could be getting that confused with a 3rd party add-on. The short-lived Windows for Networks 3.11 stuff did have a NetDDE hack, I think, and I want to say that it had a network clipboard as well. Would that be a big enough detraction from keeping history? (I wonder what percentage of copies end up never getting pasted…) So anyway, my point is that delay-rendered items in a history could go stale. That way you don t take the perf/resource hickey unless someone really wants to paste it. If something is really expensive to make a copy of, you could put a marker on the clipboard noting that the actual content should be delay-rendered, ie not actually realized until someone tries to paste it. One big problem with this idea is “delay-rendering” clipboard content.
I guess it is possible– stuff is placed on the clipboard in global memory (or at least was) and no reason you couldn’t keep a list of previous stuff. Would be interested in hearing more about that. I have not heard of the multiple-items thing for the Windows clipboard before. Maybe Office isn’t maintaining its own clipboard but just exposing more of the system clipboard. But if it is, you could access the history programmatically. I’ve heard that Windows actually keeps more clipboard history, but it doesn’t provide a user interface for accessing that history. emacs file, you can type ctrl-c y to pull up a little GUI menu displaying the contents of your kill ring.
#Ditto copyq cliper code#
Yesterday Emacs Knight posted a handy little bit of code for viewing your kill ring. It also has “registers” which are like named clipboard items. It stores things that have been copied either inside or outside of Office applications, but you can only paste from the Office clipboard using an Office application.Įmacs has a “kill ring” which is essentially a clipboard. MS Office has its own clipboard that will store 24 entries. Also, see PHenry’s comment about clipboard history in Visual Studio.) (Update: See the comments for numerous suggestions of ClipX-like products. Also, please let me know if you have suggestions for Ubuntu. If you know of a better alternative, please let me know.
#Ditto copyq cliper software#
It looks like the software hasn’t been updated since 2008. It worked OK at first, but then I had problems with it and stopped using it.
#Ditto copyq cliper free#
Here are a few possible alternatives for Windows, MS Office, and Emacs.Ī few years ago I tried ClipX, a free clipboard history manager for Windows, based on Jeff Atwood’s recommendation. Maybe you cut a large block of text intending to paste it somewhere, but without thinking you cut something else, and then realize you’ve just wiped out your first cut. The Windows clipboard only remembers the most recent thing you copied.
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