MultiClipboard

Multi-Clipboard plugin for Notepad++

Notepad++ is an excellent open-sourced text editor, that is extensible with its powerful plugin capabilities. Multi-Clipboard plugin provides fast storage and retrieval of text snippets that have been copied to the system clipboard.

Latest: MultiClipboard 2.1 9th September 2011

Features

• Language support
  
• Natively supports Unicode
• Supports display of UI in other languages using NativeLang plugin
• Copy and paste of clipboard text
• Copies text from
1. within Notepad++
2. all programs in OS
3. all programs, but only when text is pasted into Notepad++
• Sidebar for displaying and editing of clipboard text
1. Drag drop from list to Notepad++ document or other programs
• Popup clip text menu using Ctrl-Shift-V
• Optional numbered label for popup menu
• Plugin settings dialog with built-in help
• Middle-click pasting
• Clipboard cyclic paste
• Auto copying of selected text
• Persist clipboard text across sessions

Tips

To show the multiclipboard paste menu via Notepad++'s (right click) context menu, add the following line to %Notepad++Directory%\contextMenu.xml
<Item PluginEntryName="MultiClipboard" PluginCommandItemName="MultiClipboard Paste"/>

This makes things more convenient when there are many copy/paste operations to perform :-)

Planned

• Tooltip of popup menu displays full clip text
• Auto-highlight of 2nd item in pop-upmenu
• For paste all, allow customisable text in between items
• Improve the options dialog. It doesn't scale well when more options are added
• Drag and drop of text within MultiClip Viewer listbox to rearrange items. Implement listbox as OLE drop target
• Remember the position of the splitter in the MultiClip Viewer across sessions

Known issues

• When the document is converted from one EOL type to another in Notepad++, the clipboard text aren't updated
• When keymapping of paste is changed from Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert to something else, MultiClipboard will not be able to hook into the paste operation. This is a limitation of Notepad++, because it does not notify plugins of paste operations nor expose its shortcut mappings to plugins

Screenshots

MultiClipboard 2 - Docked

 

MultiClipboard 2 - Floating dialog

 

Features for version 1.2

 

This multi-clipboard plugin allows the user to quickly and conveniently perform numerous copy/cut and paste easily via its internal clipboard, and a handy Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut key. This is similar to the excellent Visual Assist's multi-clipboard function.

All the user has to do is to perform his copy/cut functions as usual, and press Ctrl+Shift+V to open a context menu with the last 10 items that was copied/cut. Selecting the item pastes it into the text as per normal.

9th Sep 11: Version 2.1

• Limit text entries in the listbox of MultiClip Viewer to 100 chars if text is too long
• Allow 'Delete' key to delete selected item in MultiClip Viewer
• Option to ignore text greater than a certain size to improve plugin performance
• Text size is a hidden option in the config xml
• Option to not allow text greater than a certain size to be edited in MultiClip Viewer, to improve plugin performance. Text size is a hidden option in the config xml
• Some internal changes to improve performance a little bit
• Rename localisation file to more standard name suffixes, eg _en, _de
• Fix issue when Notepad++ is converting text format between ANSI and UTF/Unicode, the entire text is copied into system clipboard during this process, and hence into MultiClipboard. Now the plugin will recognise and ignore this process
• Added toolbar button to delete selected item in MultiClip Viewer
• Added toolbar button to copy selected item to OS clipboard in MultiClip Viewer
• Added toolbar button to paste all item from the clipboard
• When pasting all items, add option to paste them in reverse order
• When pasting all items, add option to add newline character between items
• Added toolbar button to show MultiClipboard options dialog
• Make items in listbox of MultiClip Viewer draggable
• Drag from listbox to editor or other programs to insert text
• Remembers whether the clipboard item is a column mode selection and paste it accordingly
• Added option to persist clipboard texts across editing sessions
• Requires Notepad++ 5.5 for rectangular selection to work properly.
• (Technical)
• Switch to unity build configuration. Full release build time went down from 27 secs to 8 secs
• Use link time code generation in release build to hopefully improve runtime performance
• Updated project file to Visual Studio 2010
• Use scintilla header from Scintilla version 2.01, which comes with Notepad++ 5.5

20th Feb 2009: Version 2.0

• Added cyclic clipboard paste as an alternative to paste menu on Ctrl-Shift-V
• Added auto copying of selected text to clipboard
• Added middle click paste and shift-middle click to show paste menu
• Paste menu pop-up location is at caret when activated by keyboard, and at mouse cursor when activated by mouse
• (Internal code changes)
• Refactored the code for the settings dialog (no user functionalities changed)
• Refactored the code to delete the IView class and inherit all MVC classes from IController as the two classes are too similar
• Added a Init( ... ) function to IController class to encapsulate all initialisations within itself

22nd Nov 2008: Version 2.0 Preview 2

• Added NativeLang support
• Updated UI look and feel and icons to match those of other Notepad++ plugins, modify listbox and editbox fonts (to courier new, non bold) and tab stop width for the latter (4 chars)
• After deleting a clipviewer item, the next item in the list will be selected
• Edit box will be enabled only when a valid list item is selected
• After clicking or double-clicking a list item, input focus will go back to the active scintilla view
• Added an options dialog, and these settings are saved to xml file for persistent across sessions
• Upgraded to unicode version. From now on this plugin will only work with unicode version of Notepad++ (version 5.1 unicode and above)
• Added the original paste menu that is activated via Ctrl-Shift-V

4th Jan 07: Version 1.3.1

• Unmodified patch contributed by Bahman
• Active selections are always replaced by the previous snippet with any variety of paste command,including middle-clicking/Ctrl-Shift-V
  
• System and Multi-clipboard are always in sync, so that any generic paste uses the last thing you copied/autocopied, regardless of whether either copy or paste takes place inside or outside of Notepad++
• Plus if the snippet is external it's automatically added to the copytextlist when pasted inside npp (Note: Only upon paste, not upon copy)
  
• Fix: Middle-clicking not clipboard list menu does not paste first item now; it is ignored

12th Dec 07: Version 1.3

• Enabled text selection auto-copy by default
• Auto-copy text are passed to Windows clipboard buffer
• Added an option to use numbers as menu accelerator for clipboard items

17th May 07: Version 1.2

• Added clipboard items to the plugin's menu bar
• Clear clipboard buffer from the plugin's menu bar
• Option to toggle on/off middle mouse click pasting
• Experimental support for copy text on selection
• Polls text selection at 0.5 seconds frequency and detects text selection changes
• Detects if text selection overlaps previous one, or is a new selection, and add or replace clipboard item accordingly
• Option to toggle on/off auto text selection copying

2nd Apr 07: Version 1.1

• Implements middle-click pasting.