If you restart Quicksilver (or obviously if you logout or reboot) the Clipboard Storage will be lost. The contents only last as long as Quicksilver is running. If you want to save something for longer you can use an alternate clipboard called Clipboard Storage. Since cut and copy are such common operations on your Mac, items in the Clipboard History change frequently. TODO: Show Clipboard Cache (pNew) and Show Clipboard Cache (pOld) Clipboard Storage ¶ keyboard doesn’t need to be in use, just enabled. To solve this, you don’t have to switch to a US keyboard, but you do have to enable the “U.S.” keyboard in the Input Menu tab of the International System Preferences. There have been some reports of pasting from the clipboard not working or crashing Quicksilver B51 when a non-US keyboard is in use. I find it easier to use ⌘ ⎋ to bring the selection into the object pane but if your item is already on the clipboard this could be useful. However you can use it with other actions such as Open URL…, Look Up in Dictionary…, E-mail To…, etc. It will include the formating of the text, use the Type Text action to paste without the original formating, matching the style of the destination. Using it with the Paste action is the same as using Paste in whatever application you are using. The Clipboard Contents proxy object represents the 0’th or most recent item in the history. Instead copy something else onto the history to move it down and then delete it. You can’t delete the first (number 0) item. You can remove a single item from the history by selecting it with single click and then typing the delete key. The clear button at the bottom of the Clipboard History window will remove all but the most recent item from the history. The Clipboard History survives Quicksilver restarts and system reboots. Items remain in the Clipboard History until it fills up, in which case the oldest items are removed when new items are added (i.e., FIFO). For other items you’ll need to double-click on them to paste them. This is similar to using the screen corners in the Dashboard & Expose System Preference.įor the first 10 items in the history you can paste them into the current application by typing the number of the item while the Clipboard History window is open. You can then bring it back by moving the mouse to that same edge of the screen and it will appear again. If you position the window with one side on an edge of the screen then it will always disappear when idle (even if “Hide after pasting” is unchecked). In the Clipboard preference pane you can enable the “Hide after pasting” option. ⌘ L is a toggle, so typing it again will make the window disappear. However this doesn’t work too well for image items, you have to scroll to see them. Personally I use Clipboard History with the Show Contents action as a trigger on ⌃ ⌘ C so that I get a new results list that I can use the matching algorithm to search through. If the item is an image, the icon (usually) shows a thumbnail of it. If a clipboard item is text, the first few words are included in the list to help you identify the correct item. Note that some have reported that having the TextExtras Input Manager installed breaks the ⌘ L shortcut. If you use it often you can create a trigger. This action is actually a toggle and will close it if it’s visible. You can also choose the Clipboard History object and the Show action. You can bring up a window showing the Clipboard History by activating Quicksilver and typing the built-in shortcut ⌘ L. If you put large images on the clipboard consider a number a like 10. In the Clipboard Preference pane you can configure the number of items to be saved in the clipboard.Ī large number like 100 is useful to be able to remember things you copied several days ago but it uses more memory. With Quicksilver’s Clipboard Module you can extend this to remember the last several items you’ve copied.
#How to access clipboard on mac histrotry mac#
One limitation of copy and paste on the Mac is that the clipboard only remembers the last thing you copied. Also under Proxy Objects there’s a Clipboard Contents proxy object.
#How to access clipboard on mac histrotry install#
(You may need to install the Shelf Module plugin to see the Shelf & Clipboard catalog source and click refresh after checking it.) Under Internal Commands you’ll find several related objects, some of which behave like actions but are scripts (such as Clip Store Copy 2) that you use with the Run action. Make sure the latter is enabled for this section. Inside Shelf & Clipboard you’ll find two items, Shelf, and Clipboard History. It doesn’t install any actions but does add several catalog objects in the Quicksilver set. Clipboard and Shelf ¶ Clipboard History ¶įor this section you’ll need the Clipboard Module plugin installed.