DavidP,
@DavidP@midwest.social avatar

Give CopyQ a try. Open source, cross platform clipboard manager with tons of features.

One example option is being able to only ever paste plain text. It also has lots of programming hooks, I have a few for doing things like converting a line-feed delimited list into one delimited by commas and quoting the values.

hakunawazo,

I like vim and use it almost every day, but sometimes I miss Strg+D and Alt+F3 from Sublime (multi edit). Block select + c isn’t as useful as this.

victorz,

Give the Kakoune editor a try for native multi cursor editing. Or better yet, if you are a developer, the Helix editor.

I’m a web developer and transitioned quite seamlessly to the Helix editor from Visual Studio Code without much hassle.

The Helix editor is growing and gaining new functionality all the time.

fibojoly,

Y’all haven’t heard of Windows clipboard history? Windows + V will change your life, I tell ya!

dariusj18,

Last I checked you have to enable it, which is annoying.

capital,

You use it once, it asks if you want to enable, and you click literally one button.

suy,

Meanwhile, this was a feature on KDE-land since Klipper, which goes back (as far as I know and if I remember well) to KDE 3 or sooner.

dariusj18,

There have been third party clipboard managers forever in windows, which is kind of funny because that is almost more like the unix philosophy than expecting the UI system to handle it all.

suy,

Klipper was entirely a different program, process, etc. that was using the system tray. Nowadays it seems to be a plasmoid in the system tray. How can that be less of a UNIX philosophy than the Windows alternative? Because it’s developed by the same community that makes the shell? That doesn’t make sense to me.

dariusj18,

Then it’s not really an apt comparison as the two are comparable. I had assumed based on context we were talking about our of the box functionality from KDE, but if it’s not, then KDE and Windows had equivalent lack of clipboard history without extra tools installed.

MHanak,

To be fair it may be a security concern if someone is copy pasting passwords

fibojoly,

Keeping their admin password in the history so they don’t have to alt+tab to their Secret Server webpage? W-who would do such a thing?!

amphetaminisiert,

And I still don’t really know how to use registers in vim 😂 I just use yy and paste 🥲

Psaldorn,
@Psaldorn@lemmy.world avatar

You just do " (listen for next character as register name)

Then, say q,w,e etc, then yy to yank as normal.

So "wyy

To retrieve it you use "wp

To add to it "Wyy

To view them :reg

Remember you can make "w anything, like "x or "p

And each time you yank it gets pushed into the default register history "0 "1 "2 etc

o_d,
@o_d@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Great explanation. Thank you!

emergencybird,

I didn’t know about registers, thank you for this!

amphetaminisiert,

Ok I have to save that 🥲 thanks!

cybersandwich,

I can’t tell if ops joke is “intentionally confusing buffers with registers” and everyone is playing along or if people aren’t making the distinction between the two in this thread.

Which is ironic and humorous…potentially by accident.

iAvicenna,

Are they also replacing X with q! ?

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

any emacs elitists here?

whats_all_this_then,

Obligatory boo and/or hiss

I’ve also been meaning to give emacs a try but haven’t found the time or energy to figure out how to exit vim

JoYo,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

they have no use for copy buffers, they are still configuring emacs.

JoYo,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

ive never had to think about clipboard buffers until i used a modal editor.

now i spend %60 of my time trying to figure out where the copied symbol went.

Ephera,

Nevermind simply having an OS-level clipboard manager…

marcos,

Application specific buffers are the first thing I disable on emacs. The OS one isn’t just integrated with every other normal piece of software, it’s also more powerful and easier to use.

… at least on my Linux, YMMV.

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Win+V works decently enough for me.

jnk,

Same for plasma, global clipboard is just more convenient

pineapplelover,

I think windows+v syncs to microsoft servers or something. I remember when I was running chris titus tech’s debloat script it removed that functionality.

whats_all_this_then,

Holy crap I think that may be why I never used it. Fuck how much Windows likes to calls home

MrScottyTay,

There is for windows, and it’s further improved if you get power toys too

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