[wplug] multiple clipboard buffers & log (formerly of "Re:
win4lin?")
Rafael E. Herrera
raffo at neuronet.pitt.edu
Sat Dec 23 09:53:42 EST 2000
David Tessitor wrote:
>Beth Skwarecki asks:
>>What are the programs that you've seen implement multiple clipboards? I
>>haven't come across any myself.
>
>>David Tessitor wrote:
>>> (While we're at it, it would be nice to have several layers of clipboard
>>> buffering to hold multiple cuts without losing them. I've come across a
>>> couple programs which allow that and it's a nice feature. I've more than
>>> once wished it was in place when I've absentmindedly cut twice before
>>> pasting out the buffer and lost some recent writing before it was saved; it
>>> always seems to be from seeing a quick one or two word edit move and
>>> making it while in the middle of figuring just where I'm supposed to paste
>>> down the numerous paragraph move I've already cut -- ouch!)
>
> Luquilla Hughes mentions that Emacs has 8 such buffers. I'm not
> sure where I saw it, but the number 8 was in my mind when I wrote of
> it so maybe that is what I was thinking of. However, I don't use
> Emacs at all, so I would have had to have noticed it on a very
>
> It's nice to know Emacs has that function. The question is, does it
> work when cutting from and/or pasting to other program windows? It
If you use the standard 'Edit->Cut' or 'Edit->Copy' from a GUI, you can
have the text be sent to a little X client called 'xclipboard'. It does
what you are talking about.
Emacs has had multiple clipboard for a long time, you can see its
content in 'Edit->Select and Paste' as a menu. It grows as you copy text
into the clipboard and sometimes grows larger than the screen size in a
very long editing session.
--
Rafael
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