The app you copy from advertises formats (mostly identified by MIME types) it can provide. The app you paste into has to pick its preferred format and request that one from the source app. The reason you may not see all style info transferred is that the apps don’t both support a common format that … Read more
You can use either document.execCommand(‘copy’) or addEventListener(‘copy’), or a combination of both. 1. copy selection on custom event If you want to trigger a copy on some other event than ctrl-c or right click copy, you use document.execCommand(‘copy’). It’ll copy what’s currently selected. Like this, on mouseup for example: elem.onmouseup = function(){ document.execCommand(‘copy’); } EDIT: … Read more
Jupyter notebook runs in browser so you can use some javascript to select and copy cells to clipboard. After some trial and error I came up with this bookmarklet: javascript:(function%20()%20%7B%20function%20SelectText(element)%20%7B%20var%20range%3B%20var%20selection%3B%20if%20(document.body.createTextRange)%20%7B%20range%20%3D%20document.body.createTextRange()%3B%20range.moveToElementText(element)%3B%20range.select()%3B%20copy2clipboard(range.text%2C%20element.innerHTML)%3B%20document.getSelection().removeAllRanges()%3B%20%7D%20else%20if%20(window.getSelection)%20%7B%20selection%20%3D%20window.getSelection()%3B%20range%20%3D%20document.createRange()%3B%20range.selectNodeContents(element)%3B%20selection.removeAllRanges()%3B%20selection.addRange(range)%3B%20copy2clipboard(selection.toString()%2C%20element.innerHTML)%3B%20selection.removeAllRanges()%3B%20%7D%20%7D%3B%20function%20copy2clipboard(text%2C%20html)%20%7B%20function%20listener(e)%20%7B%20e.clipboardData.setData(‘text%2Fplain’%2C%20text)%3B%20e.clipboardData.setData(‘text%2Fhtml’%2C%20html)%3B%20e.preventDefault()%3B%20%7D%20document.addEventListener(‘copy’%2C%20listener)%3B%20document.execCommand(‘copy’)%3B%20document.removeEventListener(‘copy’%2C%20listener)%3B%20%7D%3B%20%24(‘%23notebook-container’).on(‘mouseenter’%2C%20’.input%2C%20.output_wrapper’%2C%20function%20()%20%7B%20if%20(%24(this).find(‘i%3Alast’).length)%20%7B%20%24(this).find(‘i%3Alast’).show()%3B%20%7D%20else%20%7B%20%24(this).css(%7B%20’position’%3A%20’relative’%20%7D).append(%24(‘%3Ci%20style%3D%22position%3Aabsolute%3B%20top%3A7px%3B%20left%3A%207px%3B%22%20class%3D%22fa-copy%20fa%22%3E%3C%2Fi%3E’).on(‘click’%2C%20function%20()%20%7B%20SelectText(%24(this).parent().find(‘.input_area%2C%20.output’)%20%5B0%5D)%3B%20%24(this).slideUp()%3B%20%7D))%3B%20%7D%20%7D)%3B%20%24(‘%23notebook-container’).on(‘mouseleave’%2C%20’.input%2C%20.output_wrapper’%2C%20function%20()%20%7B%20%24(this).find(‘i%3Alast’).hide()%3B%20%7D)%3B%20%7D)%20()%3B Add it to your bookmarks and run it on a notebook page. How it works For every input and output cell it adds a small … Read more
Make the protocol https and the browser should run it.
How to write a Unicode string to the Mac clipboard: import subprocess def write_to_clipboard(output): process = subprocess.Popen( ‘pbcopy’, env={‘LANG’: ‘en_US.UTF-8’}, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) process.communicate(output.encode(‘utf-8’)) How to read a Unicode string from the Mac clipboard: import subprocess def read_from_clipboard(): return subprocess.check_output( ‘pbpaste’, env={‘LANG’: ‘en_US.UTF-8’}).decode(‘utf-8’) Works on both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4. 2021 Update: If you need to … Read more
The data on the clipboard is extended with FORMATETC records: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682177%28VS.85%29.aspx The FORMATETC record contains as first field a cfFormat member which describes the file format. cfFormat can be a predefined value like CF_UNICODETEXT or CF_BITMAP or an application defined type defined by e.g. Microsoft Word. In .NET you can apparently query the Clipboard object … Read more
For those still looking, the ClipboardAPI now works with png images. try { navigator.clipboard.write([ new ClipboardItem({ ‘image/png’: pngImageBlob }) ]); } catch (error) { console.error(error); }
You can attach copy event to <span> element, use document.execCommand(“copy”) within event handler, set event.clipboardData to span .textContent with .setData() method of event.clipboardData const span = document.querySelector(“span”); span.onclick = function() { document.execCommand(“copy”); } span.addEventListener(“copy”, function(event) { event.preventDefault(); if (event.clipboardData) { event.clipboardData.setData(“text/plain”, span.textContent); console.log(event.clipboardData.getData(“text”)) } }); <span>text</span>
Synthesizing answers from superuser, just add the following to your .vimrc autocmd VimLeave * call system(“xsel -ib”, getreg(‘+’))
Another workaround would be to use Clipboard.SetDataObject instead of Clipboard.SetText. According to this MSDN article this method has two parameters – retryTimes and retryDelay – that you can use like this: System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject( “some text”, // Text to store in clipboard false, // Do not keep after our application exits 5, // Retry 5 times 200); … Read more