Re: PSA: HTML fragment mode interaction between Chromium, Clipboard & Notepad++
"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:10:39 +0100
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On 2026-02-10 16:01, Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 2/10/2026 8:33 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> On 2026-02-10 13:55, Paul wrote:
>
>>> What you need in hand, is a clipboard viewer, to see what is on offer
>>> and what Notepad++ may have accessed as its choice. So far, I have not
>>> spotted the "perfect" chunk of code for this.
>>>
>>
>> Ah, no perfect clipboard app yet?
>>
> That's a reference to source code you could use for the purpose.
> There is a Powershell example or two, but they follow the same
> "Windows reasoning", that a user does not need to know what
> is on the clipboard.
>
> There may be a finished App for $39.95 to do it.
>
> There are various "laundering recipes" for fixing issue like that.
> Presumably this Notepad++ behavior has already been noted (somewhere).
> It would be unusual for "bad manners" to go unacknowledged.
I remember reading references to clipboard managers, long ago. Maybe one
by PC Magazine? Or maybe payware.
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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.