Edit > Show Clipboard (BBEdit 10)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Hello all,

I'm browsing the tutorial and I'm surprised to see a feature that does not seem to appear in the interface.

On page 22, it says "Like the Finder, BBEdit has a Show Clipboard command on the Edit menu." But I've been checking the Edit menu (and all the other menus for that matter) to no avail.

I can find a Previous/Next Clipboard at the bottom of the Edit menu, but a "Show Clipboard" is nowhere to be seen.

Am I missing something ?

Jean-Christophe Helary

[jgill]

'Show Clipboard' is in the Edit Menu of the Finder, not BBEdit.

[Lawrence San]

> 'Show Clipboard' is in the Edit Menu of the Finder, not BBEdit.

I see a "Show Clipboard" item in both the Finder (Snow Leopard) and BBEdit 9, but of course those are older versions.

[ego...@gmail.com]

BBEdit 10.5 Release Notes includes this:

• The "Show Clipboard" command on the Edit menu has been retired. It now lives on a farm upstate.

[Lee Hinde]

Replying here just to show I checked the archives first...

Is there a way to view the BBEdit clipboard history, other than selecting the previous clipboard and pasting X times?

[Christopher Stone]

On Dec 16, 2015, at 18:49, Lee Hinde <leeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Replying here just to show I checked the archives first...

Is there a way to view the BBEdit clipboard history, other than selecting the previous clipboard and pasting X times?

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Hey Lee,

No.  At least not built-in.

You can do it with an AppleScript though.

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Best Regards,

Chris

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# Auth: Christopher Stone

# dCre: 2015/12/17 17:37

# dMod: 2015/12/17 17:48 

# Appl: BBEdit

# Task: Set selection to text chosen from BBEdit's clipboards.

# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @Choose, @Clipboard, @Text

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tell application "BBEdit"

  set clipboardList to contents of clipboards

  

  set pickedClipboardList to choose from list clipboardList with title "BBEdit Clipboard Contents" with prompt ¬

    "Pick 1 or more:" default items {item 1 of clipboardList} ¬

    multiple selections allowed true ¬

    without empty selection allowed

  

  set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return

  

  if pickedClipboardList ≠ false then set selection to pickedClipboardList as text

  

end tell

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[Lee Hinde]

Thank you!

[verdonv]

Why not use a clipboard manager? I've been using http://www.clipmenu.com for years... can't imagine working without something like that. There are others out there too.

[Matt Kanninen]

Guess I'll have to.  Easy clipboard access was one of the main reasons I decided to try BBEdit

[Christopher Stone]

On 07/16/2018, at 16:27, Matt Kanninen <mathi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Guess I'll have to.  Easy clipboard access was one of the main reasons I decided to try BBEdit

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Hey Matt,

It's about as easy as you want it to be.

See this link.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bbedit/gipy2Sp4R5k/SyQWt6Q5AQAJ

The script creates a pop-up list of the various clipboard contents.

Here's another one that will dump all clipboards into new document.

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# Auth: Christopher Stone

# dCre: 2018/07/20 07:32

# dMod: 2018/07/20 07:32 

# Appl: BBEdit

# Task: Dump BBEdit Clipboards to a new document.

# Libs: None

# Osax: None

# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @Dump, @BBEdit, @Clipboards, @New, @Document

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set _sep to linefeed & linefeed & "----------------------------------------------------------------" & linefeed & linefeed

set clipList to {}

tell application "BBEdit"

    repeat with i from 1 to 6

        set end of clipList to (contents of clipboard i)

    end repeat

end tell

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _sep

bbeditNewDoc(clipList as text, true)

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--» HANDLERS

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on bbeditNewDoc(_text, _activate)

    tell application "BBEdit"

        set newDoc to make new document with properties {text:_text, bounds:{0, 44, 1920, 1200}}

        tell newDoc

            select insertion point before its text

        end tell

        if _activate = true or _activate = 1 or _activate = "activate" then activate

    end tell

end bbeditNewDoc

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Personally I recommend a clipboard manager.  They are more full-featured and are a great productivity enhancement.

I use LaunchBar's clipboard manager and Keyboard Maestro's for different reasons.

I also have scripts for BBEdit that let me save the current clipboard to 1 of 10 pseudo-clipboards and can copy to or paste from with 1 keystroke.

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Best Regards,

Chris