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Ignoring whether this is a good idea:

- can this be made to work cross-application? You would have to be able to detect that a paste happened somewhere

- you can’t know whether a user wants to paste the same text twice. How do you handle that in the UI?

- how do you handle the case where, after copying, the user changes their mind, and never pastes the text?



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