by llee » Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:47 am
It's like a multiple clipboard utility for text, except that once you use a clip, it's gone. Maybe you could think of it as a PEZ dispenser, except that it can dispense a piece of candy from the bottom as well as from the top, and you have to fill it one piece at a time and it can be filled only from the top. The Stack Build shortcut takes any selected text and copies it to the clipboard, then adds it to the next available position on top of the virtual "text candy" stack (it's stored as a QK variable). The capacity for this particular dispenser is 10. The Stack Pop takes the top piece of text candy, inserts it wherever your cursor happens to be when you trigger the shortcut, and removes it from the stack. Stack Pull does the same with the bottom piece of text candy. The pop and pull act like paste except with regard to the stack itself which gets depleted by one item when either pop or pull is triggered. Pop and pull do not incorporate the clipboard, so if you can build your stack early during whatever workflow you need it for, your clipboard will be free to use while the stack items are sitting there waiting for you. I haven't tried to modify Clipboard Stacks to work completely independently from the clipboard, although it may now be possible. To work as intended, the shortcuts should all have universal scope.