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by BitwiseFool 1967 days ago
I would love a copy/paste stack utility. The ability to copy multiple selections and then paste them in order. For instance you could press ctrl+c five times in your source and then switch windows to the destination and then presss ctrl+v five times to get everything copied and then pasted in one go. Maybe allow toggling between FIFO and LIFO. I know MS Office has a clipboard utility that keeps a history but as far as I know it doesn't do a stack paste and it doesn't exist outside of the Office suite.

I think you'll find this would save a ton of time in office jobs that require a lot of excel work.
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hnrich 1967 days ago
It sounds like you may be on a Windows machine so this might not help you but I have been using JumpCut for years. It does what you describe and it's an essential tool for me.

https://snark.github.io/jumpcut/

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jolmg 1967 days ago
I think you're looking for clipboard managers. There's quite a few[1] for Linux/X11.

They manage clipboard history in addition to other functions. Adding that FIFO/LIFO paste functionality is probably either a configuration matter or a simple edit on the source where you just delete an entry from the history automatically on being pasted. To toggle LIFO/FIFO, it's probably simplest to just reverse the history on a keybinding.

Searching for "windows clipboard managers" also gives some results, though I have no clue as to the breadth of their functionality or extensibility.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clipboard#Managers

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frompdx 1967 days ago
I have never considered something like this, but it could be really useful.
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