ClipMate update makes a great tool even better
Thornsoft Development has released the
new version of
ClipMate I posted about recently. My original look at this now-indispensable tool is
here. This new version adds some great new capabilities which include:
- Find & Replace - ClipMate's editor now features Find & Replace, which can be used to interactively search for, and (optionally) replace text.
- Find & Replace is also a new option in the Text Cleanup facility, and can even handle Regular Expressions (RegEx).
- Outbound Clip Filtering - Have you ever wanted to paste data as "text only", without the HTML or RTF formatting? Now it's easy - just set the new "filter" button, and ClipMate will provide only the basic data formats (Text or Bitmap) to the clipboard. Unlike the "strip non-text formats", the original data remains intact.
- Updated Menus - they're not just pretty, they're more useful, showing the state of options like "exploding powerpaste" more clearly.
- Invert Case - Did you leave the cAPS lOCK turned on? Now you can "flip" the case, giving you "Caps Lock" instead.
- "URL Crunch" option for the Line-Break removal tool. Hold down SHIFT as you remove linebreaks, and text is joined with no extra spaces - perfect for un-wrapping long URLs.
The Find & Replace feature's support for regular expression (RegEx) in text cleanup operations is one of my favorites. It offers powerful syntax options that allow for some very sophisticated conditional search-and-replace options. In the screen shot below, notice the caret symbol in the "Find What" field? This tells ClipMate to only find occurrences of the word "This" when it appears at the beginning of a line.
Outbound clip filtering is my other favorite. Finally, I have an easy way to paste text-only data without stripping out the formatting permanently. This is a godsend for capturing and inserting text into my blog editors, Word, and other environments where I don't care to keep the original formatting.