Clipboard Snippets

tal

Lately I've been doing this a lot:

need some text based on some font data
write some code to print some text based on some font data
run the code
select the text in the output
copy the text
paste the text where I need the text

I got tired of this, so I added some startup code* to RoboREPL that establishes some always-available functions to ease my laziness:

from AppKit import NSPasteboard, NSPasteboardTypeString

def toclipboard(text):
    pasteboard = NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
    pasteboard.declareTypes_owner_([NSPasteboardTypeString], None)
    pasteboard.setString_forType_(text, NSPasteboardTypeString)

def fromclipboard():
    pasteboard = NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
    text = pasteboard.stringForType_(NSPasteboardTypeString)
    return text

Usage:

>>> toclipboard("\n".join(CF().selection))

Then, paste it with ⌘V.

Maybe something like this could be injected into the namespace in which all scripts are executed and/or added to mojo†?

* >>> settings.editStartupCode()
† …if something like this isn't already in mojo.