Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?

[Bill Oliver]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote:

> On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:25:16 PM T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Bill Oliver <vendor at billoblog.com> wrote:
>>> I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop
>>> question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight it and hit ctl-c
>>> or to copy it or ctl-v to paste it.  Is there anything analogous to
>>> "named registers" in vim that will allow me to copy into different
>>> buffers (or, in vim, registers) so I can grab and paste from multiple
>>> instances?
>>>
>>> If it makes a difference, I'm running Fedora 20 with KDE 4.
>>
>> Klipper is included with the Fedora KDE spin by default, and while it
>> doesn't really have _named_ registers it does save a list of the last
>> N items you copied and makes them available for easy pasting.  For
>> more information, see:
>> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/klipper/
>>
>> If that doesn't quite fit your needs there are of course a multitude
>> of other options:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/clipboard
>>
>> -T.C.
>
> I have set Klipper to save 500 entries. It is triggered with a Ctrl+` on my
> system. And you could search through the Klipper history just by typing. If
> you enable "synchronize primary selection with clipboard" you will never have
> to do Ctrl-C to copy just select and it will be copied. And then you can
> trigger Klipper anywhere your mouse is by using shortcut Ctrl+`, search and
> paste.
>
>

Thanks, guys.  This is exactly what I was looking for.

billo