Hello (world), I would like to suggest a new feature for my so-appreciated Clipman : allow to directly paste the Nth entry of Clipman history, for instance when pressing CTRL+[0-9]+V. Use cases : ----------- This would allow to immediately get back "the-selection-you-wanted" after you inadvertently made a new one. Or select a login and then a password from a file, and paste them in a login form without having to come back to the password-file (which I often do). Or to select 3 or more tweet parts, and to paste 2 of them in the wanted order to finish a new tweet construction… Extended version : ------------------ As it's very uncommon for someone to remember more than 7 concepts at once, it would not be so interesting to extend the idea to something like : CTRL+12+V (1 and 2 being typed successively…) as the first suggested version seem really easier to code from my point of view. Implementation ideas : ---------------------- A simple new command like : clipman-paste-nth 7 (to paste the 7th entry of Clipman) may allow users to create their own keyboard shortcuts (but preconfiguring 10 of them would be great).
If ciphers are not considered the good way to go, another option would be to mimic ZSH about the : cd - ; cd -- ; cd --- To get back to the previous, 2nd previous, 3rd previous working directory. We could imagine a : - CTRL+V - CTRL+VV - CTRL+VVV As long as the CTRL key is kept pressed adding Vs allow to select with previous copied element to past.
Well, ZSH is not working like that in fact, but the idea is still here :-)
While this is a different approach to your use case I use the newly added xfce4-clipman-history with the "paste instantly" option enabled (for terminals use "Shift+Ins"). It's a little less error-prone because you see what you select and it's still super fast.
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