Clipboard Ring (Now using the VS Code clipboard api!)

Extend your clipboard with the clipboard ring. Every time you copy or cut to the clipboard the content will also be added to the clipboard ring. Paste multiple times from the clipboard to circle through the items.

How it works

Use ctrl+c or ctrl+x to copy or cut as usual. But additionally, the copied content will also be added to the clipboard ring. With ctrl+shift+v you can now paste from the clipboard ring. Press ctrl+shift+v multiple times to circle through the clipboard ring. Use the Select and paste Ring Item command to paste a specific ring item. Use Remove Ring Item and Remove all Ring Items to remove a specific or all ring items.

Settings

Use ctrl+v to paste from the clipboard ring

By default ctrl+c or ctrl+x will overwrite the default copy and cut operations. The paste operation is not overwritten, because the Paste Ring Item command has a slightly different behavior. If you want to use ctrl+v to paste from clipboard add the following keyboard definition:

{
    "key":     "ctrl+v",
    "when":    "editorFocus",
    "command": "clipring.pasteRingItem"
}

Maximal clipboard ring items

By default the clipboard ring will store up to 10 items. The number of maximal items can be customized with the "clipring.maxRingItems" option. Default:

// Default
"clipring.maxRingItems": 10

Clipboard interaction behavior

Everytime a clipboard ring operation is invoked, the current clipboard content will be added to the clipboard ring. Use "clipring.backupClipboard" to disable this behavior.

The same behavior applys to the paste operation. When an item from the clipboard is pasted into the editor, the pasted content is also transfered to the clipboard. Use "clipring.itemToClipboardOnPaste" to disable this behavior.

// Defaults
"clipring.backupClipboard": true,
"clipring.itemToClipboardOnPaste": true

Selection after pasting from menu

If you don't like that the text is selected after pasting it from the menu, you can set clipring.selectTextAfterPasteFromMenu to false.

// Defaults
"clipring.selectTextAfterPasteFromMenu": true,

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this extension. Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md.