Re: Multiple clipboards
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- Subject: [mg88780] Re: Multiple clipboards
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 05:33:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Paul Schatz wrote: > It can be very useful to save multiple items to a clipboard so that any > one of them can be chosen and pasted in later. I am using an Intel Mac > with OS 10.5.2. The two utilities I have that ordinarily do this are: > iClipboard and CopyPaste. Neither of these works with my Mathematica > 6.0.1. I can only paste the most recent item I have copied in > Mathematica. Is there a utility or method that would permit multiple > clipboard items. > > Paul > The Clipboard can be accessed in Mathematica as if it were a notebook. For example: NotebookGet[ClipboadNotebook[]] I guess it would be possible to use this to build a system that would juggle several clipboards, moving the 'right' one into the ClipboardNotebook. If you made the relevant operations work off the menu system, the result could be quite neat. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk