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Write to and read from system clipboard in Clojure REPL
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| ;; Credit, Nick Nichols | |
| ;; only tested on macOS Big Sur | |
| (import '[java.awt.datatransfer DataFlavor StringSelection Transferable]) | |
| (defn clipboard [] | |
| (.getSystemClipboard (java.awt.Toolkit/getDefaultToolkit))) | |
| (defn clipboard->str | |
| [] | |
| (.getTransferData (.getContents (clipboard) nil) (DataFlavor/stringFlavor))) | |
| (defn str->clipboard [text] | |
| (let [selection (StringSelection. text)] | |
| (.setContents (clipboard) selection selection))) |
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