Bug 48505

Summary:	[EditorMgmt] Enhance the clipboard to hold multiple items
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Keith Wedinger <jkwuc89>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	goryachev, jafar4all18, kevin.hein, kevin.hein, matt, michlz, mober.at+eclipse, rolf.theunissen, rwjfh, thatnitind
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Keith Wedinger

2003-12-11 12:26:46 EST

Microsoft Visual Studio.Net and Visual SlickEdit both support a "clipboard 
ring" that can hold multiple clipboard items.  Via the keyboard, you can hit 
CTRL+SHIFT+V to cycle through the clip choices when doing a paste operation.  
This is an enhancement I would like to see added to Eclipse's editor 
functionality.

Comment 1 Guillaume Pothier

2004-12-21 19:26:55 EST

That would be great indeed. It seems that bug #38723 is a duplicate.
By the way IntelliJ IDEA also has this feature, and it is really useful.

Comment 2 Martin Oberhuber

2005-11-25 11:47:14 EST

Emacs also has this (Ctrl+Y / Meta+Y), and it is very useful indeed!

Comment 3 Oyvind Harboe

2005-12-03 11:39:34 EST

The Windows clipboard can hold multiple items, e.g. an image and a text.

It would be nice to be able to iterate through the items on the clipboard(modeled as multiple clipboards?)

Comment 4 Maxime Daniel

2006-09-11 04:48:19 EDT

vi also has it... and it is useful indeed, even this is not the first thing new users would leverage.

Comment 5 Susan McCourt

2009-07-09 19:03:34 EDT

As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009

Comment 6 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-17 13:07:33 EST

Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.

Comment 7 Marwan Rawajfeh

2018-04-02 07:39:50 EDT

Its 2018 and I still highly recommend this feature, even the JDeveloper has it.

Comment 8 Rolf Theunissen

2019-12-01 07:08:43 EST

*** Bug 38723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 andy goryachev

2022-11-15 15:34:45 EST

Let me suggest an alternative (or possibly, additional) UI.

Too often I need to refactor some code in bulk where several items need to be changed manually.  I'd rather have a small table with clippings, and if you click on a specific row the content get copied to the clipboard.  It may need two buttons - one to add content from the clipboard, and another to delete a row.

It's an alternative that eliminates cycling through multiple and possible unrelated (and possible ephemeral) multi-clipboard items.