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Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by jackthetab »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #7

What I've discovered is that I don't even want a menu. I want to hold the command key, tap the v key several times, and just have it cycle through until I get the one I want. It'd only release the past when I let up off of command (each tap of V would replace the previously pasted item with the next in this queue/ring). Command-C would just copy into the ring to the first position. Use another hotkey to remove an ite…

IIRC Flycut did that. Loved it but it only copied text and was abandoned a long time ago.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by zmmmmm »

any functionality to exclude passwords from making it into the history? This is the most annoying thing with Maccy for me (I literally have complex wrapper scripts that turn it on and off when I'm using my password manager which are flaky and annoying to maintain).

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by kickingvegas »

FYI, there's an alternate clipboard in macOS called the kill ring (influenced by Emacs) that lets you cycle through previously killed text. The default property is called NSTextKillRingSize. There's a bit of config to do but it still works (Sonoma 14.5 as of this writing) for native macOS apps. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by accoil »

zmmmmm wrote: post #32

any functionality to exclude passwords from making it into the history? This is the most annoying thing with Maccy for me (I literally have complex wrapper scripts that turn it on and off when I'm using my password manager which are flaky and annoying to maintain).

Have you tried CopyQ? I've not used it on MacOS, but on Windows and Linux it can exclude based off window title: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-to-omit-...

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by Ikryanov »

zmmmmm wrote: post #32

any functionality to exclude passwords from making it into the history? This is the most annoying thing with Maccy for me (I literally have complex wrapper scripts that turn it on and off when I'm using my password manager which are flaky and annoying to maintain).

That’s one of the most requested feature for now. I will definitely add it, so you can add any app to the list of software that must be ignored. Thanks for your feedback!

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by danpalmer »

Carrok wrote: post #19
pier25 wrote: post #10

I just use Alfred. Has clipboard history and so much more. https://alfredapp.com/

Yea, OP says it doesn't meet their requirements, but Alfred does every requirement they list. It is paid, but I paid 12 years ago and my license key is still working. Great dev(s?).

+1 the Alfred devs are lovely people.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by danpalmer »

vunderba wrote: post #24
pier25 wrote: post #10

I just use Alfred. Has clipboard history and so much more. https://alfredapp.com/

Raycast is also a Spotlight replacement that's very good and has a built-in clipboard history manager. https://www.raycast.com Everything that the OP listed it does out of the box (keyboard control, previews, searchable, etc). I'm very confused at what they found it was lacking.

Raycast is great, although I'm a little annoyed that unlimited clipboard history is behind a $10/month paywall – annoying given that it's just a config setting, I'm running the compute and storage.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by OJFord »

I've been meaning to look for this since switching from Linux at work - will try it out when open source for sure.

Are the keybindings customisable? I'm accustomed to Super-c showing my list and Super-v pasting, so now of course I keep messing up because selections aren't copied automatically, Super(Cmd)-c is doing it and not showing a list, and erasing my previous clip...

I don't mind too much relearning muscle memory, but I do want to be able to customise a binding so I can settle on something common cross-platform.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by taejavu »

jackthetab wrote: post #31
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #7

What I've discovered is that I don't even want a menu. I want to hold the command key, tap the v key several times, and just have it cycle through until I get the one I want. It'd only release the past when I let up off of command (each tap of V would replace the previously pasted item with the next in this queue/ring). Command-C would just copy into the ring to the first position. Use another hotkey to remove an ite…

IIRC Flycut did that. Loved it but it only copied text and was abandoned a long time ago.

Umm should I not be using Flycut? It's still on the app store.
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