Nevermind simply having an OS-level clipboard manager…
Win+V works decently enough for me.
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.
I googled it, there is an option to sync it to your Microsoft account, but I can’t say whether that’s on by default when you turn on clipboard history because I skipped adding a Microsoft account. But if it is, you can turn it off in Settings -> System -> Clipboard.
Holy crap I think that may be why I never used it. Fuck how much Windows likes to calls home
I’m don’t know why but I’ve never used windows clipboard manager, which is weird because I go out of my way to make sure I have one when I’m on linux
Or the KDE System tray…
Ah, that is what I meant with OS-level clipboard manager (in fact, that is precisely what I thought of).
Oh, I gotcha now
Windows also has it, but it’s disabled by default for some reason
Nah that’d be too intuitive
In all seriousness though, I kinda appreciate moving things around in my editor without losing that one snipet I copied for later
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.
I don’t have the name handy, but there’s at least one plugin for vim that shows buffer previews in a popup. I’ve got it mapped to leader-sb (for “show buffer”).
Telescope?
yah, helix has that in the info bar oob.
im just not thinking about that when im copying shit, i just want to copy paste like it’s 1999.
So far I haven’t been brave enough for that feature. It’s either “that main place yank goes”, “system clipboard”, or “that place that makes it disappear” for me
You can see all registers in use with
:registers, to paste from a register say"2in insert mode use key combination2or in normal mode"2p. You can check out more in:help registers. Unnamed register or""is the system clipboard I think. To copy texts in a register you can prepend yank (/delete/cut, etc.) with that register"_(for black hole register[1]) This is for neovim. Have keybinds for them and there saved you a plugin :D
Text yanked in this register is gone, i.e. it’s not saved in any register. ↩︎
Same thing but reversed with multiple cursors :/
That’s actually the biggest thing I miss about VSCode
https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
I also missed multiple courses, but I started using vim-visual-multi in my nvim config and it’s been great. There’s a few others I tried that I couldn’t get to work quite right (usually some weird conflict with nvim-cmp) but I’ve had the best success with vim-visual-multi.
I’m gonma bookmark and try this next time I find the courage to mess around my nvim config. That last none_ls breaking change has made me very hesitant to mess around with things that aren’t just colorschemes ngl.
I also tried https://github.com/smoka7/multicursors.nvim and the experience was horrible. Then I tried https://github.com/brenton-leighton/multiple-cursors.nvim and I absolutely love it. It has conflict with cmp, but the README has great tutorial on disabling cmp only when using multiple cursors, and dealing with other plugins to maks them work or disable them in the multicursor mode.
helix has a pretty good mc system in the select mode.
I’ve been meaning to check helix out for a while now but haven’t found the time :(
Same here, but Atom. Maybe I should start using Atom again.
FYI atom project is dead. There is a community form available but it was to buggy for me.
I know it’s dead. I still have it, and it still does all I want from an IDE.
huh?
And I still don’t really know how to use registers in vim 😂 I just use yy and paste 🥲
any emacs elitists here?
they have no use for copy buffers, they are still configuring emacs.
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
just get QT browser and search it with any search engine
I’m just an emacs … enjoyer (…?) and I just don’t understand the post. I’m pretty sure buffers here refer to something different from emacs buffers as they’re completely unrelated to clipboards. Then from a quick scan of the plug-in mentioned it seems to mimic the clipboard ring emacs has had for many decades (always?).
Basically I have no idea what’s going on here.
I had to learn emacs for my engineering computation class, up to the point that we were required to present our code in emacs if we had questions to ask during office hours.
I got quite used to it by the end of that course.
We be rocking that kill ring !
What would an operating system need yank registers for? Maybe if you get a good text editor to go with it, like Evil Mode 😉
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.
