Ignore dynamic pasteboard types

[kyleerhabor]

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Problem

Some pasteboard types include dynamic data and can't be ignored via the "Pasteboard types" tab. A prominent example of this is the built-in Preview app and when you edit an image. The edited portions are copied to the pasteboard with the "dyn.<...>" type, where <...> refers to a long, generated identifier. Ignoring the Preview app would work, but exclude other writes to the pasteboard (e.g. Command-C to copy the contents).

Solution

Allowing regular expressions to be used in the "Pasteboard types" tab would make it possible to ignore dynamic types. With the previous example, ^dyn\.[\w\d]+$ would appropriately match it.

Another solution may be to internally ignore types with the "dyn" namespace. I think such a solution is fine, but not as flexible for other dynamic types that may exist.

[p0deje]

Can you please describe the use case for this ignore? Maccy currently filters out all dyn.* types from copies so those contents are lost. This would make the edited copies similar to the original ones.

[kyleerhabor]

That's odd, since I'm finding that Maccy includes copies with the dyn.* type. The only reason I could imagine for this (besides it being a bug) is there being another process writing to the pasteboard with the type removed (but I doubt that is the case).

The use case is to ignore copies by some dynamic element of their type. dyn.* is one example, but it could apply to any given type, such as com.company.* (ignore copies with any type matching a reverse domain name, just to make something up).

[p0deje]

That's odd, since I'm finding that Maccy includes copies with the dyn.* type. The only reason I could imagine for this (besides it being a bug) is there being another process writing to the pasteboard with the type removed (but I doubt that is the case).

When you copy something, it would still have dyn.* types in the system clipboard. However, Maccy would not store them in the database, so if you select this copy in Maccy - it would not have dyn. types anymore.

The use case is to ignore copies by some dynamic element of their type. dyn.* is one example, but it could apply to any given type, such as com.company.* (ignore copies with any type matching a reverse domain name, just to make something up).

I get it, but can you please describe the use-case what you are trying to do and how Maccy doesn't work in this case? I tried doing some annotations in Preview.app but it didn't generate any dyn. types.