software recommendation - Searchable Clipboard Manager, like ctrl-r in bash - Ask Ubuntu

i looking clipboard manager search functionality. love ctrlr in bash shell , have same functionality in clipboard manager desktop.

up have been using diodon, feature not exist in diodon. see related question there https://answers.launchpad.net/diodon/+question/403507

use case:

• i copy+pasted "internationalisation" before.
• i type next text.
• i want insert "internationalisation" again.
• i hit magic key stroke. "inter" , want see list of strings copy+pasted during last days.
• i choose 1 want. done.

with diodon long list of last matches, that's good, not perfect.

introduction

as stated in comments, i've written simple clipboard manager indicator use of python 3 , few zenity dialogs, allows manipulating clipboard contents, has search functionality.

search functionality, in particular, makes use of python's re module, means can use regex expressions more fine-grained search. each text entry has 4 options in submenu: insert text clipboard, append text end of what's in cliboard, prepend text beginning of current contents, , remove history.

installation

in terminal , run following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:1047481448-2/sergkolo sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-bulletin 

demo

in animation below can see demonstration of text being copied, clipboard appended indicator, , test string searched via simple search dialog. found contents displayed in simple text view dialog timestamp in user's locale (if it's set). found text can copied via selecting text , using standard ctrl+c shortcut.

in case wondering:

• animation made silentcast app
• desktop , icon theme ubuntu kylin theme, 16.04 version
• yes, that's ubuntu (16.04) launcher on bottom.

further development

the indicator made in 1 day, minimalistic in nature of right now. in future there additional features added, such preferences dialog. menu length , text width hard-coded 10 items in indicator , 30 characters max each entry.

if want make feature request, please submit issue ticket on project's github page, source code available.

updates:

february 14,2017:

• implemented file operations feature - loading text file clipboard , writing clipboard contents file.
• implemented displaying range of entries date. option calls zenity forms dialog requires starting , ending date in yyyy/mm/dd/hh:ss format. effectively, log reading within date range, same this
• couple bug fixes

february 15,2017:

• added editing submenu. users can convert clipboard contents upper/lower case, trim words/characters beginning or end of text, , replace expressions(uses python's re regex).

february 17,2017:

• added option opening history item in text file ( similar bash's fcedit). far opens default program set plain-text filetype.
• couple improvements , bug fixes.

february 19,2017:

• added base64 operations (encode/decode).

march 3rd,2017:

• added "pinned submenu" , ability "pin" specific items clipboard history. code refactored, parts rewritten repeated use.