The weight of the clipboard

Re:The weight of the clipboard by BuyMyBitcoins on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:59AM (#29809742)

As someone who used to work with spreadsheets extensively at a bank, I can tell you that some kind of stack/queue functionality would be a godsend.

For instance, in this mode you hit Ctrl+C five times, then the subsequent five Ctrl+V actions paste the data in FIFO order. It may not seem like much, but going in between app windows in order to grab data is a big time sink. Being able to copy items sequentially and then paste them sequentially would be a killer app in most Excel heavy office workflows. You could also add a toggle for LIFO, or maybe some keyboard shortcut / chording for toggling modes while the user is pasting.

I had actually tried to implement this as a hobby project but truthfully, my MVP was rudimentary at best because I’m inexperienced at COM+ and developing for the Windows Shell.

Edit: I’m using ‘Stack/Queue’ loosely, not in the rigid data structure term of art way.

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Re:The weight of the clipboard by CyberShadow on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:58AM (#29810562)

Thanks for sharing! As I understood, I think many clipboard managers already allow this, or at least, CopyQ and Ditto do. The approach is to just copy all the items you need, and then press "Win+V 5" five times. 5 would paste the fifth item in the history, but every time you did that, it is pulled to the top of the list, putting the next item in that spot.

Would this work, or is there more to it?

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Re:The weight of the clipboard by BuyMyBitcoins on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:24PM (#29813635)

Thank you for sharing as well, I’ll have to give those two programs a try because they seem to be doing what I was hoping for. Best of luck on your project!

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