Notepad++ is an excellent open-sourced text editor, that is extensible with its powerful plugin capabilities. Multi-Clipboard plugin provides fast storage and retrieval of text snippets that have been copied to the system clipboard.

Features

• Language support
  • Natively supports Unicode
  • Supports display of UI in other languages using NativeLang plugin
• Copy and paste of clipboard text
  • Copies text from
    1. within Notepad++
    2. all programs in OS
    3. all programs, but only when text is pasted into Notepad++
  • Sidebar for displaying and editing of clipboard text
    1. Drag drop from list to Notepad++ document or other programs
  • Popup clip text menu using Ctrl-Shift-V
  • Optional numbered label for popup menu
• Plugin settings dialog with built-in help
• Middle-click pasting
• Clipboard cyclic paste
• Auto copying of selected text
• Persist clipboard text across sessions

Tips

To show the multiclipboard paste menu via Notepad++’s (right click) context menu, add the following line to %Notepad++Directory%\contextMenu.xml
<Item PluginEntryName=”MultiClipboard” PluginCommandItemName=”MultiClipboard Paste”/>

This makes things more convenient when there are many copy/paste operations to perform 🙂

Planned

The following are features planned for the continual development of MultiClipboard 2. While they are planned, they are by no means guaranteed to be delievered due to any problems/constraints.

• Tooltip of popup menu displays full clip text
• Auto-highlight of 2nd item in pop-upmenu
• For paste all, allow customisable text in between items
• Improve the options dialog. It doesn’t scale well when more options are added
• Drag and drop of text within MultiClip Viewer listbox to rearrange items. Implement listbox as OLE drop target
• Remember the position of the splitter in the MultiClip Viewer across sessions

Known issues

• When the document is converted from one EOL type to another in Notepad++, the clipboard text aren’t updated
• When keymapping of paste is changed from Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert to something else, MultiClipboard will not be able to hook into the paste operation. This is a limitation of Notepad++, because it does not notify plugins of paste operations nor expose its shortcut mappings to plugins