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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.
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.
Emacs also has this (Ctrl+Y / Meta+Y), and it is very useful indeed!
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?)
vi also has it... and it is useful indeed, even this is not the first thing new users would leverage.
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Its 2018 and I still highly recommend this feature, even the JDeveloper has it.
*** Bug 38723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
