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> That's what Copy fundamentally means- make this thing globally available to all my programs Wouldn't that be: Copy means- "make this thing go into MY clipbo
by pacoverdi 6y ago
> That's what Copy fundamentally means- make this thing globally available to all my programs
Wouldn't that be:
Copy means- "make this thing go into MY clipboard".
Paste means- "make my clipboard available to THIS application".
- efreak 6y agoCopy and paste are application-level interfaces; the operating system holds the data, but has always given it up on demand. I've actually seen some applications that use the clipboard as an IPC mechanism (most recently, a Python application, I don't recall what for, was wiping URLs from my clipboard to see if it was already running)
- pacoverdi 6y agoHistorically, yes. But in a world of mobile OS with permissions everywhere, it would make sense to deny full read access by default. I may be wrong but I thought that even websites cannot access clipboard content except in write mode. Even, I remember that long ago, a Flash script was commonly used to be able to copy stuff into it.