Could the clipboard be a special target?

[alexhwoods]

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If the clipboard was a special target:

• Pasting could be untied from the cursor. e.g. bring clipboard to <target>
• The following would be equivalent
  • carve and move <target> to clipboard
  • copy and bring <target> to clipboard
• Many commands don't make sense in this context, e.g. pour

This is more a request for debate rather than a feature request. I'm also not sure if we'd want to deprecate copy and carve; that would definitely mess with my muscle memory.

[pokey]

A couple thoughts on the connection to #46:

• In that issue, bookmarks will become rich objects that can describe all sorts of things
• So you could actually break down the concept of “clipboard” further
• Bringing something to the clipboard is equivalent to passing the target through a modifier that extracts the textual contents and divorces them from the target itself, and then you insert that into a bookmark called “clipboard”

[pokey]

Also note that this direction will be easier once we have #210, because then the clipboard can just be an object-oriented target

[jaresty]

I really like this idea.