Comments on: Xcode Pasteboard Accumulator

By: Faried Nawaz

Faried Nawaz — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:23:44 +0000

I really really really want a selection buffer stack for X. I wonder if it’s possible to do it without hacking the X server.

By: Jim DeVona

Jim DeVona — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:37:43 +0000

Correction to my previous comment: the script does work fine packaged as a service with TextWrangler, too, as long as you indicate that it acts only on input, instead of both input and output as I had first tried. Logically, TextWrangler was just replacing the selected text with the nothing returned by the script, whereas other Cocoa text fields seemed to know not to bother if nothing was indeed returned.

By: Jim DeVona

Jim DeVona — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:28:56 +0000

Neat. You can also drop this script on ThisService to make it available as a service to almost every application instead of just Xcode. The script works as a service without modification (except I've found that text is "cut" in TextWrangler instead of copied - but TextWrangler has built-in "Copy & Append" functionality anyway). Then the only challenge that remains is selecting a reasonable keyboard shortcut that won't conflict with any of your other apps!

By: Nehemiah

Nehemiah — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:14:15 +0000

:-) hehe, copy, THEN zip. things will go much better then.

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:36:33 +0000

Quicksilver has a ‘clipboard history’ plugin that could do this as well. Use cmd-l (lowercase L) in QS once it’s installed.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:30:27 +0000

Doug: cool idea – I think I’ll implement something similar!

Michael: Thanks for the link – you certainly can’t beat the price. I’ll check that out.

By: Michael McCracken

Michael McCracken — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:27:46 +0000

I know you said you’re not interested in running another application, but I still feel like I have to mention PTHPasteboard – it’s at least as important to my mac usage as Quicksilver.

It solves your problem nicely, and gives you a way to visually inspect your pasteboard, swap things around on it, and *search* your pasteboard stack. This is one of those things where you never knew how much you needed it. At least it was for me…

http://pth.com/products/pthpasteboard/

By: Doug Dickinson

Doug Dickinson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:12:13 +0000

Here’s the script for the Swop selection with pb; not quite sure why it got swopped out of the previous posting:

#! /bin/sh
#
# — PB User Script Info –
# %%%{PBXName=Swop selection with pb}%%%
# %%%{PBXInput=Selection}%%%
# %%%{PBXOutput=ReplaceSelection}%%%
# %%%{PBXArgument=terminal=”\n”}%%%

pbpaste
pbcopy

By: Doug Dickinson

Doug Dickinson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:09:53 +0000

Here’s another of a similar nature which I find useful: Swop selection with pb (script at bottom). I’ll often want to swop two things, such as the parameters in a method definition. Imagine I’ve got:

- (void)defrabutateMozzle:(NSString *)aMozzle pilker:(NSNumber *)aPilker quipe:(NSString *)aQuipe { … }

and I want to swop the last two. I select pilker:(NSNumber *)aPilker and copy it (I find if I cut it, I sometimes forget where it was). Then I select quipe:(NSString *)aQuipe and do a Swop selection with pb – the selected text is copied to the pb and what was on the pb is put into its place. So now, there are two pilkers and no quipe (except on the pb). Finally I select the first pilker:(NSNumber *)aPilker and do a paste.

I normally assign Swop selection with pb to control-command-v. And here’s the shell script to do it; perform similar steps to the above to get it into the Script’s menu:

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