BetterClipboard 0.2.5

BetterClipboard 0.2.5 — new tabs for the commands you run, the prompts you send and the screenshots you take

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Updates in place and keeps your history. The installer verifies the download's SHA-256 and closes the
running BetterClipboard gracefully. This release also contains 0.2.4, which was never published (paths in
the Files tab, below).

Seven new tabs. Each has its switch in Settings › Integrations, and each is on by default. Tabs for apps
you don't have stay hidden. BetterClipboard only reads these sources: it never changes their files or lists.
Privacy in the README lists every source it reads, with its
default and its switch.

• Run: every command you run with Win+R, kept for good. Windows remembers only the last 26; BetterClipboard
  starts with those and keeps every new one.
  • Ctrl+Enter runs a command again, Ctrl+Shift+Enter as administrator (both also in the item's menu).
    Enter still pastes it.
• Pwsh: PowerShell's own history, the commands typed in PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell. The search
  reaches all of them, also the old ones PowerShell's Up arrow no longer loads.
• Cmd: the commands typed in your open Command Prompt windows. Command Prompt forgets them when its window
  closes; BetterClipboard reads open windows every 30 seconds and keeps what it saw.
  • In both tabs a command becomes a history item only when you paste, copy, pin or group it. Delete hides
    a command until you type it again.
• Everything: with Everything installed, the files and folders you opened from
  its results, newest first and how often, plus what you copied in Everything.
  • Enter pastes the file itself, Shift+Enter its path. Show in Everything finds a file there, also
    from file items anywhere in your history. Delete hides a file until you open it in Everything again.
  • BetterClipboard talks only to an Everything signed by voidtools. While Everything isn't running, the tab
    shows the history Everything saved.
• Claude and Codex: every prompt you send to Claude Code or
  Codex, kept for good, also after Claude Code's cleanup removes old prompts from its
  own history.
  • The prompts you sent before are imported at the first start. After that, each new one arrives the moment the
    app writes it.
  • One card per prompt, with its project, when you sent it and how often. Enter pastes it, Ctrl+P keeps
    it in your clipboard history, Delete removes it until you send it again.
  • Prompts are kept apart from your clipboard history: encrypted like it, but never under All and never
    counted against its limits. Codex's subagents and codex exec runs are left out. Images are counted, not
    kept.
  • Delete stored prompts… in the same Settings card deletes what was kept.
• Snipping: the screenshots Snipping Tool saves (Win+Shift+S, PrtScn) and Win+PrtScn shots, in your history
  the moment Windows writes the file. The same picture on the clipboard stays one item.
  • Screenshots saved while BetterClipboard wasn't running arrive at its next start (up to the 100 newest). The
    first time, the screenshots already in your Screenshots folder are left alone.
  • Snips are labeled "Snipping Tool" instead of "SnippingTool.exe", the ones already in your history too.

Image previews. Rest the mouse on an image card: after a moment the whole picture appears in the middle of the
screen, as large as fits in 80% of it (never enlarged past its real size), and moving the mouse hides it again.
The eye button in an image card's corner opens a viewer that stays until you close it: the mouse wheel zooms
toward the pointer, dragging pans, a double-click switches between fit and zoomed in. Esc, a click outside the
picture or its X closes it.

Search options. Three toggles inside the search box, as in VS Code: Aa match case (Alt+C), W whole
words (Alt+W), .* regular expression (Alt+E). They are remembered. An invalid expression turns the .* outline
red and says what is wrong.

A resizable panel. Drag any edge of the panel; its size is remembered. The filter tabs scroll sideways: the
‹ › arrows at their ends, the mouse wheel, or a drag on the strip.

Several groups at once. Ctrl+click group icons to show them together, Shift+click for a run of them.
They merge into one list in the usual order, each item once, and the search and the tabs apply to it. Or
right-click an icon › Add to view.

Paths in the Files tab (from 0.2.4). Text that is nothing but paths is listed under Files too, next to the
files you copy in Explorer: C:\Users\you\notes.txt, C:/a/path, \\server\share, /var/log/syslog,
%APPDATA%\Code, ~/.bashrc, src\app\main.cs, folder/file.cs, one path per line.

• It is strict: slashes in prose (and/or, 24/7), URLs, command lines (./run.sh src/a.txt) and relative
  paths without a file name (src/app) stay in Text only. Folder names with spaces count when they read like a
  name (C:\Program Files (x86)) or are quoted the way Explorer's Copy as path writes them.
• A path still pastes as text and stays in the Text tab too. Your existing history is sorted once at the first
  start.

Settings › Third party lists the apps BetterClipboard works with and the components it is built with, with
their official sites and the license notices.

Command line. bclip list -f takes the new tabs (run, pwsh, cmd, everything, claude, codex,
snipping), and -f files includes paths copied as text. bclip prompts lists and searches your kept prompts,
bclip prompt ID prints one exactly.

• The Groups button's ribbon icon is now centered in its button.

Everything new in 0.2.3 (Forget forever) is described in the 0.2.3 release.

File	What
BetterClipboard-0.2.5-win-x64.zip	App + bclip for x64 PCs (self-contained)
BetterClipboard-0.2.5-win-arm64.zip	App + bclip for ARM64 PCs (self-contained)
BetterClipboard-0.2.5-win-x64.7z, BetterClipboard-0.2.5-win-arm64.7z	The same files, 7-Zip compressed
SHA256SUMS.txt	SHA-256 of the zips and the .7z archives (install.ps1 checks it)
install.ps1	The installer / updater / uninstaller
betterclipboard.0.2.5.nupkg	The Chocolatey package (embeds the .7z archives)

• An older BetterClipboard can still open your history. Items it records while it runs are sorted into Files at
  the next start of 0.2.5.
• Not code-signed yet: a zip downloaded with a browser may trigger SmartScreen; the PowerShell installer is
  unaffected.

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Code signing policy: see the README for whether this release is signed, what is signed, and who approves it.