Whoa, you can now search clipboard history. Go to Spotlight Search, Command+4. You'll get a list of entries, each with a copy button, and is searchable. Even shows the app it was copied in.

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bayindirh 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At last Apple implemented a decent clipboard history. KDE has this thing for a decade now, I guess...

KDE also can encode entries as QR codes, so you can make URLs transferable to your phone or whatnot.

-- Sent from my MacBook Air.

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heavyset_go 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you use KDE Connect, your clipboard history immediately goes to your phone's clipboard :)

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gazook89 19 hours ago | parent [-]

macOS/ios can also share clipboards for awhile now.

For KDE Connect, does the phone have to be an Android or ?

	▲	heavyset_go 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		KDE Connect works on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS
	▲	jcotton42 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		KDE Connect exists on both iOS and Android, though some functions like text messages aren't available on iOS.

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pabs3 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

KDE doesn't have infinite clipboard history yet, like the GPaste extension for GNOME Shell has.

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bayindirh 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm fine with ~250 entries (which I configured), plus search. I don't prefer to have "forever" files which grows all the time.

I found out that being able to let go of things relieves a lot of load over one's proverbial and literal shoulders.

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heavyset_go 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

CopyQ works for forever history for me, it also doesn't save copied passwords, which is nice.

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pabs3 14 hours ago | parent [-]

How does it detect passwords? Usually those are just plain-text when copied.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

Either way, I think it is better to not copy passwords to the clipboard or the selection, but store and transfer them via password-manager/browser/etc APIs.

	▲	heavyset_go 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		With KDE on Wayland, there is a clipboard hint MIME type `x-kde-passwordManagerHint` for passwords that clipboard managers can choose to drop.

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20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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ubercow13 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

More like, almost 3 decades.

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afandian 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Including passwords from password managers?

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TomaszZielinski 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Pretty handy, right :)?

And seriously, managers like 1Password clear the clipboard after some time. I would guess that there’s some clipboard API that allows managers to exclude copied passwords from being permanently added to the history.

Still, there are pieces of data that one might not want to store in such unobvious place as clipboard history so it’s good to know about it.

	▲	afandian 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use KeePassXC which does empty the keyboard after a few seconds. But keeping history seems like a breaking change to the social (if not technical) contract of the OS' clipboard API.

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hu3 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Windows has this with Win+V for those wondering.

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dsego 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does that mean that add-on clipboard managers like Maccy are obsolete now?

	▲	al_borland 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In most cases Apple’s integrations do the 20% that 80% of users want. Third party apps give the additional 80% of features that the 20% may want. How obsolete those apps are depends on you as a user.
	▲	latexr 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No. Spotlight’s clipboard history doesn’t even keep items for longer than eight hours.

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merrvk 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wow, didn't realise there was more than one tab

	▲	al_borland 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When you open it for the first time there is a display that tells you all the shortcuts. Beyond that, if you move your mouse while Spotlight is on-screen, it shows the tabs and tells you the shortcuts as you hover over them.

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burnt-resistor 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There were already a zillion and one apps (Maccy, ClipMenu, Jumpcut, Flycut, Alfred, ...) that provided this.

It'll be one of the first things I turn off whenever I get around to installing it ~6+ months from now.