Memorized clipboard entries

[eisenpony]

Summary: Support assigning key-bindings to clipboard history items.

I occasionally need to run a command over and over again on a number of files.

I typically get my list of files ready as a \n delimited list of paths. To open them, I will cut their path to the clipboard, switch to a console and paste. Once they are open, I need to type in a command into the integrated shell. I would love to be able to paste the command, but because I copied the path onto the clipboard buffer, the command is no longer at my finger tips. Using the Clipboard history feature of Windows helps, but as I open more files, the command gets pushed further and further down the history list.

As an enhancement to the history list, I would love to be able to assign a key-binding to a particular entry. No matter how far the entry was pushed down the list, the key-binding would let me select it quickly.

When the entry was removed from the list, the key binding should also be freed up.
I suggest the key-binding only work after opening the clipboard history with Win+V, but perhaps a global key binding would be useful to some people too.

[nolde]

@eisenpony , you might want to check ClipX.

I have been using it for a long time, cannot live without it.

[robsonsobral]

WIN+V+1, WIN+V+2, WIN+V+3...

[crutkas]

is this you want the same item over and over again or to pull stuff truly from your clipboard.

[eisenpony]

My idea was based on getting an item from the clipboard history.

Either bind an entry in the clipboard history to a hotkey, or prevent it from getting bumped down the list when copying new items so that it would always be available using the same key strokes.

Perhaps the Pin command could be modified to accomplish the same thing.

[nolde]

I know I've said it before, but ClipX with Stickies plugin seems to do exactly what you want:

• on paste menu, you can reference the 10 top entries with the numbers keys; so, if you configure the paste menu with CTRL+Shift+V, you could then just press 5 to get the fifth item on the list
• if you have common commands that you sue VERY often, you can turn it into a Stickie, that bind to letters, so you could trigger CTRL+Shift+V then A to get the 1st stickie, which is always the same

ClipX is quite old, but still works well. I would give a try into a new one if PowerToys ever adds something like it.