clipboard

Access the clipboard and do not care if the OS is Linux, MacOS or Windows.

Usage

You have Clipboard.copy,

Clipboard.paste and

Clipboard.clear

Have fun ;)

Multiple clipboards

On Linux, you can choose, from which clipboard you want to paste, default is PRIMARY.

copy copies to all clipboards in Clipboard::CLIPBOARDS.

Non-gem requirements

  • Linux: xclip (you can install it on debian/ubuntu with sudo apt-get install xclip)

  • Windows: clip (installed by default since Vista)

Bugs / TODO

  • Fix 1.9 and Encoding issues on Windows

  • Don’t depend on xclip ?

Feel free to report bugs or to implement one of the TODO entries ;)

Copyright © 2010 Jan Lelis, rbjl.net, released under the MIT license

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