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1. sour-t+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-01-29 07:31:32
I use sublime as a copy paste buffer when I need excellent visual regex search and replace. Vscodes regex search has awkward semantics (or at least I don't know them as well as sublimes) so I usually paste things into sublime, edit them with the regexes, then go back to what I was doing. My work has some extensions that only work in vscode so I'm stuck with it but it's good enough. I also never close sublime tabs and it persists them indefinitely with minimal memory usage, so I sometimes go back to grab things I was doing a few days ago. Definitely not the intended use but it works really well for me.
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2. carpo+Y1[view] [source] 2025-01-29 07:58:29
>>sour-t+(OP)
This is exactly how it use it too
3. steins+t2[view] [source] 2025-01-29 08:03:45
>>sour-t+(OP)
Sounds like how I use Np++
4. sander+Fd[view] [source] 2025-01-29 10:13:22
>>sour-t+(OP)
If you use windows, you can use WIN + V instead of using an editor for a copy paste buffer.

WIN + V activates clipboard history, so you can see and select things you copied previously.

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5. iforgo+h22[view] [source] 2025-01-29 20:01:05
>>sour-t+(OP)
I'm gonna start doing that, cause TextEdit can't even copy-paste reliably, and vim isn't super convenient for this either.

Edit: Wow Sublime is the nicest GUI text editor I've ever seen

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6. nyanta+dK2[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-30 00:03:48
>>sander+Fd
This is the kind of thing I love HN for. Great tip!
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7. Grzego+0gy[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-02-09 21:29:38
>>sander+Fd
And on macOS an open source Maccy app is a great clipboard manager / buffer.
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