You don't have to start from scratch. You don't to do anything other than learn to use anamnesis. I use anamnesis as my clipboard manager. I you can easily tell to get which ever one you want (i.e. the thousandth item).
# Inform yourself https://sourceforge.net/projects/anamnesis/ # Install it cd ~/bin/src/ wget -O anamnesis.tar.gz https://sourceforge.net/projects/anamnesis/files/latest/download tar xzf anamnesis.tar.gz ln -sf ~/bin/src/anamnesis-1.0.4/source/anamnesis.py ~/bin/anamnesis # Be happy It hasn't changed in years and that's just fine. I just works. I can access it through the command line when I am in a remote ssh session. Or I have it as a autostarted daemon. It uses sqlite to store all your copied (and selected, if configured) text, which can be slow on a spinning disk. If this turns you off, replace your OS hard drive with an ssd - life's too short. HTH On October 28, 2018 5:14:54 PM GMT+01:00, Tim Daneliuk <i...@tundraware.com> wrote: >On 10/27/2018 08:17 AM, Musatov wrote: >> I am wondering if Python could be used to write a program that >allows: >> >> 1. Highlight some text >> 2. Ctl+HOTKEY1 stores the string of text somewhere as COPIEDTEXT1 >> 3. Highlight another string of text >> 4. Ctl+HOTKEY1 stores another string of text somewhere as COPIEDTEXT2 >> >> THEN >> >> 5. Ctl+HOTKEY2 pastes COPIEDTEXT1 >> 6. Ctl+HOTKEY2 pastes COPIEDTEXT2 >> >> I found "pyperclip" and "Tkinter" but I don't know where to start. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Musatov >> > > >I am able to do this with clipboard (pip install clipboard). > > >However, the highlighted text must be copied explicitly: > >Highlight >Ctl-C > >In Python: > >TEXT1 = clipboard.paste() > >Highlight again > >TEXT2 = clipboard.paste() > >X actually has several clipboard buffers and it can be tricky to get >this going. I don't recall, >but either clipboard or pyperclip have a way to get to them all IIRC >... > >HTH, >-Tim > >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
