Edit Clipboard

The Edit Clipboard command can be used to edit the content of the clipboard selected. The content of the clipboard is placed into an editing window and can be edited in all the same ways a file may be edited. When the text in the window is saved, it is written back to the clipboard. The Windows clipboard and any of Boxer's internal clipboards can be edited. The Windows clipboard is not eligible for editing if it contains non-text data.

The content of each clipboard is displayed in a popup window as the menu cursor is moved across the clipboard's menu entry. This makes it easy to check what's on a clipboard without pasting the content into a file or opening it for editing.

The content of Boxer's internal clipboards will be saved at the end of an edit session, as long as the length of the text on the clipboard is 2,048 characters or less. Because the content of the internal clipboards persists from session to session, and cannot be changed by other applications, these clipboards can be useful for storing frequently used text blocks for insertion into your files. The Edit Clipboard command might be used to create these text blocks and maintain them.

The content of a clipboard can be cleared with the Clear Clipboard command. The content of all clipboards can be cleared with the Clear All Clipboards command.

When the content of a clipboard is displayed in a popup window, the text is displayed with an 8 point, fixed width, Courier New font. This font utilizes the ANSI character set mapping. If the current screen font uses an OEM character set mapping, and if characters outside the normal alphanumeric range reside on the clipboard, then the content of the clipboard may appear different in the popup window than it would in the underlying file. This difference is simply the result of a difference in character sets, and does not mean that the data on the clipboard has been adjusted or corrupted.