(Day 14 of 30 Days of Blogging)
Greenclip is really useful for recording your clipboard history and showing a menu to switch between items.
Along the same lines I had an idea to write a tiny script that allows editing of the clipboard in vim. This has been handy when I need to quickly fix up some text before pasting it into a GUI application:
#!/bin/sh -e
file=`mktemp /tmp/clipboard-XXX`
xsel --clipboard > "$file"
xterm -e "$EDITOR -c 'set nofixeol' \"$file\""
xsel --clipboard < "$file"
rm "$file"
The nofixeol option prevents vim from adding a newline to the end of the clipboard, which is
usually not desired.