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> It's confusing. It is also very useful, but if you don't want it many clipboard managers have a simple checkbox to just have one clipboard. For instance "sy

• amelius 5y ago
  Interesting, I never looked into clipboard managers. I often have to copy X and Y coordinates from two fields to the same fields in another instance of the application. Is there an easy way to copy both values and only then switch to the other instance and paste them?
  • diffeomorphism 5y ago
    In Excel? Click on field X, press and hold ctrl and click on field Y to mark both fields, then just copy&paste should work. Otherwise this is up to the app. A generic clipboard has no concept of the content of X and Y being in different fields (because it has no clue what a "field" is). It just stores the content.
    • diffeomorphism 5y ago
      ... otherwise clipboard managers work like a stack. So you can copy X, then copy Y, paste Y, pop the stack, paste X. Or with primary selection: select X and press ctrl+c, select Y; ctrl+v to insert X, middle-click to insert Y.