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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

I'm struggling to see what problem it solves too. I can see that it likely creates problems... Say you had some important information in the clipboard, then you highlight some text to show someone (for example, during screen sharing on a video call) - bang! Important clipboard content overwritten

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codingjlu

If you're using Windows just enable Clipboard history, but no... I don't think I'd want a feature like this.

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Jaime Aleman

hhmm, had not thought of that. Good point.

I've always used a clipboard manager. I'm always copying/pasting text/code from place to place. You should look in to that Randy. Very useful.

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Travis Fantina

I definitely see the use case, it basically adds the auto-copy functionality of iTerm2 into the browser. Which in my opinion is pretty cool, but yeah, a clipboard manager like Alfred is pretty much a pre-requisite unless you want to do the above!