PTHPasteboard doesn’t require any special action on your part in order to remember what you copy it simply remembers everything that passes through the system’s clipboard. Pasting works similarly Keyboard Maestro shows you its list of clipboards, and you pick the one you wish to paste. Keyboard Maestro performs the cut or copy back in the application you were originally in, puts it on the normal clipboard and in its own clipboard list, and returns you to what you were doing. The clipboards can be assigned names, and you can get some idea of what’s in them through a tooltip that appears when you hover the mouse over one of them. When you cut or copy with one of these keyboard shortcuts instead of the standard Command-X or Command-C, Keyboard Maestro puts up a window with a list of clipboards here, you choose either to append a new clipboard to the existing list or to reuse one of the existing clipboards. It responds to particular user-configurable keyboard shortcuts for cutting, copying, and pasting.
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Holder’s QuickScrap, which I remember using on Mac OS 9 some years ago. Keyboard Maestro’s multiple clipboard interface is somewhat similar to PTHPasteboard’s, and is also reminiscent of John V. (Look at BBEdit to see how such an interface might work.) To implement multiple pasteboards at system level would be simply a matter of adding more General Pasteboards, and providing an user interface to them.
At present, however, only one of pbs’s pasteboards is the General Pasteboard, the one that all applications know about and share during Copy and Paste operations. Thus, if you were the developer of two applications, you could allow each of them to copy and paste extra data by way of a sixth pasteboard, which other applications could use too if they knew about it.
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In fact, pbs maintains five pasteboards, and applications are free to add others. You may have noticed, for example, that the text you enter into the Find dialog in Safari then shows up in the Find dialog in BBEdit that’s because pbs maintains a separate Find Pasteboard. This daemon is perfectly adequate to provide multiple clipboards (pasteboards), and in fact already does so. The clipboard is now the responsibility of a background daemon called 'pbs' (for 'Pasteboard Server'). The situation is particularly surprising in view of the fact that Mac OS X’s clipboard underpinnings are considerably more sophisticated than in previous systems.