A clipboard manager is a computer program that adds functionality to an operating system's clipboard. Many clipboards provide only one buffer, overwritten by each new "copy" operation. The main task of a clipboard manager is to store data copied to the clipboard in a way that permits richer use of the data.
Clipboard managers enhance the basic functions of cut, copy, and paste operations with one or more of the following features:
- multiple buffers and the ability to merge, split, and edit their contents
- selecting which buffer "cut" or "copy" operations should store data in
- selecting which buffer(s) "paste" operations should take data from
- handling formatted text, tabular data, data objects, media content, and URLs
- saving copied data to long term storage
- indexing or tagging of clipped data
- searching of saved data
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