Hi All,
My apologies if this request has been posted before. I was wondering if it would be possible to have the multiple clipboards displayed as a "virtual" text document in the editor, so you can use the editor's full power on it. The clips could be separated by some character-sequence. If the scripting/macro stuff can access this document too, it could be quite powerful (add stuff, remove stuff, change stuff).
Thanks for a great app!
-Tao.
On 04-04-2005, at 11:33, Thijs Stalenhoef wrote:
Hi All, My apologies if this request has been posted before. I was wondering if it would be possible to have the multiple clipboards displayed as a "virtual" text document in the editor, so you can use the editor's full power on it. The clips could be separated by some character-sequence. If the scripting/macro stuff can access this document too, it could be quite powerful (add stuff, remove stuff, change stuff).
No I'm pretty sure this is an original suggestion :-p.. Interesting idea, however there are some practical problems such as what if you copy/paste any of those character-sequences and what if you copy paste in the virtual clipboard itself etc. Also, I am not sure how it will work in connection with the real clipboard, but I really don't know much about that.
Perhaps instead of the character sequences, the folding system could be "retasked" for this, with each "folder" being a clipping.
All in all I feel something like this would feel more natural in the TextMate context, then a special popup window with its own UI.
-Tao.
Quoting Sune Foldager cryo@cyanite.org:
On 04-04-2005, at 11:33, Thijs Stalenhoef wrote:
Hi All, My apologies if this request has been posted before. I was wondering if it would be possible to have the multiple clipboards displayed as a "virtual" text document in the editor, so you can use the editor's full power on it. The clips could be separated by some character-sequence. If the scripting/macro stuff can access this document too, it could be quite powerful (add stuff, remove stuff, change stuff).
No I'm pretty sure this is an original suggestion :-p.. Interesting idea, however there are some practical problems such as what if you copy/paste any of those character-sequences and what if you copy paste in the virtual clipboard itself etc. Also, I am not sure how it will work in connection with the real clipboard, but I really don't know much about that.
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On Apr 4, 2005, at 14:29, Thijs Stalenhoef wrote:
Perhaps instead of the character sequences, the folding system could be "retasked" for this, with each "folder" being a clipping.
All in all I feel something like this would feel more natural in the TextMate context, then a special popup window with its own UI.
The popup is for when you want to find an item way back on the clipboard. Actually, making this popup window more like cmd-T (the file chooser) would make sense.
I'm not sure what use-case it is you have in mind when you suggest viewing the history as its own document. Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on this, so I can better understand what you want to achieve?
Allan Odgaard wrote:
The popup is for when you want to find an item way back on the clipboard. Actually, making this popup window more like cmd-T (the file chooser) would make sense.
I'm not sure what use-case it is you have in mind when you suggest viewing the history as its own document. Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on this, so I can better understand what you want to achieve?
It is just that I feel it would be a more natural way of managing large amounts of (potentially big) snippets. It means you can edit the snippets and manage them using the full power of TextMate, instead of having a totally different interface for dealing with them. Finding items way back would be easy (just use find). You can then also save all your clips at once if you want to.
At the end of the day though, it is just an idea.
-T.
On 4 Apr, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Sune Foldager wrote:
On 04-04-2005, at 11:33, Thijs Stalenhoef wrote:
Hi All, My apologies if this request has been posted before. I was wondering if it would be possible to have the multiple clipboards displayed as a "virtual" text document in the editor, so you can use the editor's full power on it. The clips could be separated by some character-sequence. If the scripting/macro stuff can access this document too, it could be quite powerful (add stuff, remove stuff, change stuff).
No I'm pretty sure this is an original suggestion :-p.. Interesting idea, however there are some practical problems such as what if you copy/paste any of those character-sequences and what if you copy paste in the virtual clipboard itself etc. Also, I am not sure how it will work in connection with the real clipboard, but I really don't know much about that.
How about a 'clipboard project'?
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