windows-clip

Native Windows clipboard operations for tree-view files and folders.

Features

• Native clipboard: Uses Windows clipboard API directly for cross-application compatibility.
• Cut/Copy/Paste: Full clipboard operations with Explorer interoperability.
• Smart duplicates: Uses Windows naming format <name> - Copy (n)<ext>.
• Force paste: Option to overwrite existing files.
• Service: Provides clipboard access for other packages.

Installation

To install windows-clip search for windows-clip in the Install pane of the Pulsar settings or run ppm install windows-clip. Alternatively, you can run ppm install asiloisad/pulsar-windows-clip to install a package directly from the GitHub repository.

Commands

Commands available in .platform-win32 .tree-view:

• windows-clip:cut: (Shift+X) cut selected files/folders to clipboard,
• windows-clip:copy: (Shift+C) copy selected files/folders to clipboard,
• windows-clip:paste: (Shift+V) paste from clipboard (auto-rename if exists),
• windows-clip:force: (Shift+B) paste from clipboard (overwrite if exists).

Provided Service windows-clip

Provides native Windows clipboard access for file operations. Other packages can read/write file paths and drop effects directly from the Windows clipboard.

In your package.json:

{
  "consumedServices": {
    "windows-clip": {
      "versions": {
        "1.0.0": "consumeWindowsClip"
      }
    }
  }
}

In your main module:

module.exports = {
  consumeWindowsClip(windowsClip) {
    // Constants for drop effect
    windowsClip.DROP_EFFECT_NONE  // 0
    windowsClip.DROP_EFFECT_COPY  // 1
    windowsClip.DROP_EFFECT_MOVE  // 2
    windowsClip.DROP_EFFECT_LINK  // 4

    // Read file paths from Windows clipboard
    const paths = windowsClip.readFilePaths()

    // Read the drop effect (copy/move/link)
    const effect = windowsClip.readDropEffect()

    // Write file paths to clipboard with drop effect
    windowsClip.writeFilePaths(['/path/to/file'], windowsClip.DROP_EFFECT_COPY)

    // Clear the clipboard
    windowsClip.clear()
  }
}

Contributing

Got ideas to make this package better, found a bug, or want to help add new features? Just drop your thoughts on GitHub — any feedback's welcome!