What is Skim the clipboard?
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This add-on use regular expression templates to filter a text when it is pasted or copied. You may paste & filter when you paste a text modified by a regular expression in a form field in the browser. You may copy & filter to copy some text from a web page and want to use it modified by a regular expression in another application. You may also apply a regular expression modifier to change a text already in the clipcoard. The changed text being kept in the clipboard so that it can be pasted in the address bar for example.
Example 1: Suppose I want to filter only words that are longer then four characters to use in search engine: Open the Skim the clipboard option page click on Add a row (check box field) and enter the following in the table:
- set name: >4,
- set regular expression template: [\w\u00c0-\u010f]{4,}
- Regular expression modifier: gi
- set keep match or substitute: checked
- Keep in clipboard: unchecked
- Shortcut: two
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Skim the clipboard requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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