Comment by Vexs
10 years ago
Wow, it kind of sounds insane that we don't have multiple-copy paste by default now. Come to think, I can think of a bunch of times where I open up notepad to store a copy-paste.
10 years ago
Wow, it kind of sounds insane that we don't have multiple-copy paste by default now. Come to think, I can think of a bunch of times where I open up notepad to store a copy-paste.
Emacs kill ring?
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki...
It takes a while to get used to it, but once you understand it / use it in anger, it becomes tough to live without.
Only in unix-world would it be considered wise to call the place where you put blocks of text for later use the "kill ring."
Nothing to do with Unix, it's an Emacs thing.
In Emacs, what you nowadays call "cutting and pasting" is instead called "killing and yanking". It was called that way even before "cut" and "paste" got popularized, I think.
And the "Kill Ring" name makes sense, as it a) contains snippets of text you killed and b) when yanking (pasting) lets you cycle through all the killed snippets. You can view your kill ring in its entirety via a menu or with a plugin (kill-ring-browser or similar, I forget).
Emacs is old and brittle, but its basic editing model is very good. It does lack (without plugins) some features I learned in Vim (the most irritating thing at the beginning was a lack of "textobjects"; I still occasionally miss them, despite expand-region and other plugins), but is basically the only editor that I feel is worth learning.
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You have to admit that it's an apt name for something George R.R. Martin could use, though.
I seem to remember that Windows had at one point something called "clipbook". I was under the impression at the time that it was about multi copy-paste, but I never figured out how it worked. Probably few people did.
In MS Word 97, when I was doing some book editing I used the "Spike" feature for more advanced cut and paste very often. It's still in there http://www.howtogeek.com/213212/how-to-use-the-spike-to-copy...
Isn't that the concept of the "clipboard" that Excel is always asking me about clearing after doing a lot of copy-pasting?
MacOS back in the System 7 era (1990s) had a clipbook utility that shipped with the OS. MacOS had generally better copy and paste support in general though, since it could handle virtually any file format the computer could handle. Text, audio, pictures, even video were all valid in the cut buffer.
Windows has had clipboard format negotiation since the beginning. When an application copies data into the clipboard, it can do so in multiple formats. Each format can be rendered either eagerly or lazily by the application putting data into the clipboard.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
Applications that wish to get data from the clipboard can then enumerate the available formats and select the format that matches what they can use.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
http://www.mschaef.com/blog/tech/excel/what_is_in_your_clipb...
Microsoft Office shipped with a utility to do that back in the Office XP era. I don't recall it being very popular, and I'm not even sure they still ship it...
You should try a clipboard manager (on Windows, I use 'ditto.' Search for 'ditto clipboard manager.')