Comment from Nello Lucchesi
This is good as far as it goes. But multiple clipboards are even better! Which of the many utilities that add multiple clipboards do you recommend? I've used CopyPaste Pro (Plum Amazing) for at least a...
View ArticleComment from Conrad Hirano
You wrote, "Plus, although you can paste something on the main clipboard multiple times, Yank removes the text from the kill ring, so it can’t be yanked again." I don't find this behavior to be the...
View ArticleComment from Andrew
Don't forget about the pbcopy and pbpaste commands in the Terminal; handy for piping information into UNIX programs such as Pandoc.
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
As we say in the article, there are a lot of utilities that will provide access to multiple clipboards or, more generally, clipboard history. Since so many do this, it often comes down to what else you...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Thanks! That's getting a bit farther afield, but I'll add a mention.
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Strange - now I can't reproduce the behavior I was seeing with a single use of Yank erasing the kill ring. I'll fix that.However, I also (at least in TextEdit) can't reproduce what you're saying about...
View ArticleComment from Conrad Hirano
That's weird. I just did four consecutive kills in TextEdit and then yanked, and all four lines were inserted.
View ArticleComment from Simon
It really gets fun when you involve XQuartz. Selections in X11 programs are automatically copied to the X11 clipboard. Middle-clicking pastes them. And you can even chose if the X11 clipboard should be...
View ArticleComment from Jeff Swart
Thanks so much for the enlightening info. I almost didn't read the article, after all what could this old dog learn about Copy and Paste...well, quite a lot, as it turns outThanks so much for sharing...
View ArticleComment from Jeff Swart
...speaking of such things, it brings to mind a couple of long standing unresolved issues I’ve encountered:(1) along about Yosemite (I skipped Lion thru Mavericks), TextEdit no longer seems to support...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Firefox does indeed seem broken in this way - it's putting the wrong data on the pasteboard for TextEdit.In terms of converting text clippings, the best I can think of would be to find them all by...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
So if you have a file that contains these three words:Alice likes BobYou can select Bob, press Control-K, select likes, press Control-K, and select Alice, and press Control-K. Then, with a single press...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Yeah, we were equally as shocked at how much we learned (and are still learning, clearly!) in the process.
View ArticleComment from Peter N Lewis
You mentioned dragging into the Terminal instead of Copy & Paste - dragging will also quote spaces and other characters, and thus is preferable to Copy & Paste unless you are sure the path is...
View ArticleComment from Arno Wouters
For what it is worth .....I made a document in TextEdit with four lines:Conrad likes coffee.Alice likes ale.Bob likes beer.Donald likes donkeys.I could turn this into:Alice likes aleBob likes...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
That's it! The key is that for kill to append to the kill ring, you cannot select text. It must be used in the "kill to the end of the line" mode. Whenever you use normal Mac selection methods, kill...
View ArticleComment from Kevin Killion
Decades later, I still miss the dedicated Cut, Copy, Paste keys on the legendary Apple Extended Keyboard. Hell, every once in a while I still catch myself reaching for one of those!!!
View ArticleComment from Jim Ratliff
I have three-finger drag set (in the Accessibility system preference, though it's implemented in the trackpad plist).When I select text and try to create a text clipping by three-finger dragging, it...
View ArticleComment from Brian Steere
I like and use Butler for a pasteboard menuette - along with a lot of other features.
View ArticleComment from mderison
I tried Control-K from both Mail and Safari, then Control-Y into Text Edit. It did not work? Anyone know why?
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Interesting. With further testing, it looks as though Control-K and Control-Y work only within an app, not between apps. I'm not sure what I was seeing before when we were testing this; perhaps we just...
View ArticleComment from Peter U
Not an OSX problem, but Keybaord Maestro's Clipboard History Switcher stopped working for me a while ago (still using MacOS 10.9.5 and KM 6.4.8). Anything I copy is not showing on the Clipboard...
View ArticleComment from fprice
"With a file or folder selected, press and hold the Option key and choose Edit > Copy filename as Pathname (Command-Option-C)"This doesn't seem to work for me. When I select a Finder icon & hold...
View ArticleComment from Jason Kerr
Great article. I didn't know that kill-yank worked outside of the Terminal ..."There’s no way to edit a text clipping."Not entirely true. ClipEdit by Everyday Software...
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