Ditto - Getting Started

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Table of Contents:

What is Ditto?

Ditto - Custom Key Strokes

What is Ditto?

Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.

Basic Usage

Run Ditto.
Copy things to the clipboard, e.g. using Ctrl-C with text selected in a text editor.
Open Ditto by clicking its icon in the system tray or by pressing its Hot Key which defaults to Ctrl + ` – i.e. hold down Ctrl and press the back-quote (tilde ~) key.
Double click or press enter on the item to paste it to the previous window.

Terminology

Clip = Copy = Something copied to the Clipboard (e.g. using Ctrl-C). These appear as items in Ditto’s Main Window list.

Every Clip is composed of one or more Formats, each having its own Type, e.g. ANSI text, Unicode, BMP images, html, xml, etc. Each Format represents a different aspect of the object you copied onto the Clipboard.
Every Clip also has a Description that is extracted from the beginning of the Clip’s CF_TEXT Format. The Description is used to represent the Clip in Ditto’s list and is searchable using the Filter Box

Target or Focus Window = the window that Ditto pastes to.

Ditto’s Main Window

Title Bar = Caption = Displays the number of Clips selected and the current Target window.
Saved Items List = History List = Lists the Clips saved from the Clipboard.
Filter Edit Box = Filters the List by Description. After searching, a "C" button appears to the right of the edit box (also triggered by Alt-C), which Clears the filter and resets the list to its default view.

Features

Global versus Local Hot Keys
Properties
Filter Box
Groups
Transferring Clips over a Network

Key bindings

Ctrl-`	Default Ditto window activation Global Hot Key

Esc	Close Window
Tab	Move focus to the next control in the current window
Ctrl-Space	Toggle Ditto window between normal and always showing on top (persistent)

Enter	Paste Selected Items in the Target Window, or Enter Group (if the item is a Group)
Alt-Enter	Open the Clip Properties Dialog
Shift-Enter	Past CF_TEXT (plain text with no formatting) only
F3	Show Full Description in a tooltip
Ctrl-A	Select All
Alt-C	Clear the search filter

Ctrl-G	Show the hierarchy of Groups in a treeview
Backspace	Go to the Parent Group
Alt-Home	Go to the History Group (all Clips)
Alt-End	Go to the list of all Groups (no Clips)
F7	Create a New Group and place the currently selected Clips in that Group
Ctrl-F7	New Group
Ctrl-X,C,V	Cut, Copy, Paste Clips between Groups (this does not use the Windows Clipboard)