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I had a bit of an epipheny today for a new method of copy and paste and wondered if it were already implemented in any OS or if there are plugins that can do something similar

I had to do a menial task today involving renaming lots of different filenames into 6 possible filenames

I took the longest one and copied and pasted it each time it was needed - the others ityped as i needed them

It made me think - wouldn't it be cool to have a numbered copy and paste option where you could copy things into a numbered clipboard and get them back as you needed. So if I had 6 possible filenames i needed in my clipboard I would hold:

cmd+1+c
cmd+2+c
cmd+3+c
cmd+4+c
cmd+5+c
cmd+6+c

then to paste each one it would be

cmd+1+v
cmd+2+v
cmd+3+v
cmd+4+v
cmd+5+v
cmd+6+v

obviously it's up to me to remember which filename is under which clipboard, but would be cool.

Anything like this out there?
 
similar but thats one extra step. You have to open up the hot key menu and then choose your paste item

I'm talking about doing it in one swoop:

i.e. on windows it would be:

ctrl+c+1 to copy
ctrl+v+1 to paste

ctrl+c+2 to copy
ctrl+v+2 to paste

without opening up any menu's
 
Similar (ish...) there's a mac text replacement app called dash. (Windows equivalent called phrase express)

eg i type @@ and it autoreplaces with my email (i reckoned i have saved close to a decade just on this shortcut...). I have @@h for home address and @@w for work address, @@t for my telephone nm,ber etc.

You can set up any text to any keyboard combination. Im afraid with your method my memory would fail me as to what is in which clipboard.

Launchbar also has a clipboard manager. CMD and \ brings up the 40 recent clipboard entries, continue holding cmd, scroll down with the cursor to select, let go of cmd to insert. (sounds much less simple than it is)
 
i'll look that up as that would also be helpful.

Its a bit different though as you say - mine is more for something you are doing right now rather than you might continue to want day in and day out.

Even if you were copying and pasting a possible 2 words it would be good - like true/false
 
joescrivens said:
similar but thats one extra step.
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You'd just need to mod that slightly. Autohotkey is a scripting language, so most things can be done :) I'm sure a man of your prowess could manage that ;)
 
arad85 said:
You'd just need to mod that slightly. Autohotkey is a scripting language, so most things can be done :) I'm sure a man of your prowess could manage that ;)
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have you been talking to my wife?
 
I remember one of the older MS Office having this option. Everytime you'd copy something. It would store them in a table... Can't remember which version it was!
 
If you select multiple files and you right click to rename any of them (while they are still selected), windows will rename all of the selected files with the new name but assigns a numeric value to each of the files to give them a unique name.
 
ziggy©;5586467 said:
If you select multiple files and you right click to rename any of them (while they are still selected), windows will rename all of the selected files with the new name but assigns a numeric value to each of the files to give them a unique name.
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yeah thats nothing like what I described or needed though
 
Clipboard Manager does a similar thing for Windows. When you copy anything it goes into the Clipboard Manager list. If you right click on anything in the list it copies it into Windows clipboard and you can paste from there as normal.
It takes a few more steps than what you want though :'(
 
Yeah, it's really the ease of use small steps I was looking for as a concept that would be useful
 
joescrivens said:
I'm talking about doing it in one swoop:

i.e. on windows it would be:

ctrl+c+1 to copy
ctrl+v+1 to paste

ctrl+c+2 to copy
ctrl+v+2 to paste

without opening up any menu's
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:thumbs: Sounds like it would be a very useful for some of the things I do at work.
 
TopBanana said:
:thumbs: Sounds like it would be a very useful for some of the things I do at work.
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If you find yourself typing the same things over and over, take a look at a text replacement app - phrase express for windows or dash for mac.
 
Rapscallion said:
If you find yourself typing the same things over and over, take a look at a text replacement app - phrase express for windows or dash for mac.
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these things are only good as you say if it's always the same things you are replacing. If it varies all the time then it has to be more manual - thats where my idea would come in well
 
joescrivens said:
these things are only good as you say if it's always the same things you are replacing. If it varies all the time then it has to be more manual - thats where my idea would come in well
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That's where the clipboard manager i mentioned comes in!
 
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