Re:How the Clipboard Works
by NavinF on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:40AM
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That breaks common use cases such as copy-pasting private images that can only be downloaded using your login cookies.
> If you paste the filename of an image into a plain text editor, you'll get the filename verbatim. If you paste it into an image editor, it opens and pastes the image in there
That's how the clipboard already works on Windows as long as the source application provides both formats.
> If you paste the filename of an image into a plain text editor, you'll get the filename verbatim. If you paste it into an image editor, it opens and pastes the image in there
That's how the clipboard already works on Windows as long as the source application provides both formats.