I don't know how it is with MacOS's but in Windows I find the lack of - really - ANY clipboard management troubling. In Linux, your distro likely ships with a decent clipboard manager, however the (I believe this is an old Unix behavior) whole copy what you select thing drives me nuts - and so far I've yet to find a 100% way to avoid it.
Anyway, back to Windows. I've always held jobs that required me to be on Windows. And I would imagine work machines are a vast majority of Microsoft's business. And a lot of companies - smartly - restrict what you install on your work machine. Why in the world would you not put some decent built in tools in your OS? I find being able to - via hotkey - access, edit, and select from historical clipboard contents to be invaluable. Without such a tool, I have to have notpad instances (Notepad, you're next) loaded up with passwords, urls, code snippets, other stuff that I need to re-copy to my clipboard.
What year is this? You don't have a clipboard manager, stock, in your OS?
And Notepad. Has Notepad not changed since 95 (or even earlier)? You can't even give it tabs capability? And that Find dialog. Seriously? I like vintage, but if that's why Notepad is unchanged, where is my Space Cadet Pinball? People will say 'it has - wordpad'. Wordpad is a rich text editor. So if we are dealing with plain text I find it even worse than Notepad. Others say it's supposed to be a 'just good enough' editor. Buuut - it's not even just good enough if I can't get it to open large plain text logs. Maybe your 'just good enough' tools need to be upgraded to 'actually just good enough' tools?
So when I log onto servers I am stuck using a text editor that can only open one file at a time, craahes if I try opening huge log files, and doesn't REALLY know where words start and end - so I'm either mousing around or navigating letter by letter. Seriously, what year is this?
I also use Notepad to store keys, URI's etc. I would not however, allow a clipboard manager to be installed on my domain, as convenient as it may be, they store history in plaintext. This is a security problem when admins are using it and that history file ends up having passwords, keys, IP addresses etc in it.
ReplyDeleteFor log files, I would suggest EMEditor or EMacs for Windows. Both of which have portable versions which don't require installing.
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I'll have to check out EMEditor. I do have a portable copy of VIM, but I don't put anything on these servers so am kind of stuck w/ notepad heh.
DeleteFor clipboard managers, that's a good point.
CopyQ can be config'd to encrypt the items i stores. I haven't messed w/ that yet though.
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