Nevermind simply having an OS-level clipboard manager…
There is for windows, and it’s further improved if you get power toys too
Windows also has it, but it’s disabled by default for some reason
It’s not disabled.
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
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.
You can see all registers in use with
:registers, to paste from a register say"2in insert mode use key combination<ctrl-r>2or 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. ↩︎
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
Y’all haven’t heard of Windows clipboard history? Windows + V will change your life, I tell ya!
Last I checked you have to enable it, which is annoying.
You use it once, it asks if you want to enable, and you click literally one button.
Meanwhile, this was a feature on KDE-land since Klipper, which goes back (as far as I know and if I remember well) to KDE 3 or sooner.
There have been third party clipboard managers forever in windows, which is kind of funny because that is almost more like the unix philosophy than expecting the UI system to handle it all.
Klipper was entirely a different program, process, etc. that was using the system tray. Nowadays it seems to be a plasmoid in the system tray. How can that be less of a UNIX philosophy than the Windows alternative? Because it’s developed by the same community that makes the shell? That doesn’t make sense to me.
Then it’s not really an apt comparison as the two are comparable. I had assumed based on context we were talking about our of the box functionality from KDE, but if it’s not, then KDE and Windows had equivalent lack of clipboard history without extra tools installed.
To be fair it may be a security concern if someone is copy pasting passwords
Keeping their admin password in the history so they don’t have to alt+tab to their Secret Server webpage? W-who would do such a thing?!
I was going to mention that was a potential issue
And I still don’t really know how to use registers in vim 😂 I just use yy and paste 🥲
I only know how to use them with q. I hope that’s a register, otherwise I will look foolish.
They are. Registers are just “named boxes” where you can store some text and/or keystrokes. When yanking and pasting, the unnamed register is used if you don’t specify a name (you can still see or edit it explicitly). For recording a macro there is no default register, though. You need to give it a name.
Same thing but reversed with multiple cursors :/
That’s actually the biggest thing I miss about VSCode
helix has a pretty good mc system in the select mode.
search in selection is such a cool workflow
yah ive been swapping to hx wherever i need to do refactoring, it’s too good to miss out.
space-r ename symbol for easymode.
This feels like something I also do in neovim unless I’m misunderstanding you completely. Is it highlighting text and having yoir search apply just to the highlighted text?
If so, yes it’s great whenever you use it
yeah, and helix spawns a cursor at every match
I’ve been meaning to check helix out for a while now but haven’t found the time :(
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.
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?
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
No, but I’m happy to talk to you about our lord and savior
nanoGet out
Sorry, is that…
esc… then:thenqand!or did I get the order wrong? Can’t I justctrl+octrl+x?
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 😉
I like vim and use it almost every day, but sometimes I miss Strg+D and Alt+F3 from Sublime (multi edit). Block select + c isn’t as useful as this.
the vim-visual-multi plugin tries to do this. It takes some time to get the hang of it, but, even if using only the simplest features, it’s way better than not having the option.
Thank you, I will try it.
Seems that I need to remap a few keys like for NerdTree and my tab switch.Works like a charm. Thanks again. Even mouse selection.
Give the Kakoune editor a try for native multi cursor editing. Or better yet, if you are a developer, the Helix editor.
I’m a web developer and transitioned quite seamlessly to the Helix editor from Visual Studio Code without much hassle.
The Helix editor is growing and gaining new functionality all the time.
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.
Are they also replacing X with q! ?
