fix(windows): keep temporary pastes out of clipboard history#1768
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Human Written Description
On W11 , the "don't modify clipboard" option was still filling my Win+V history with duplicates and empty entries. I use clipboard history all the time, so this was really annoying. This fix keeps pasting fast without changing or polluting the clipboard history.
Related Issues/Discussions
Related: #1356
This issue was closed because clipboard-based paste was assumed to have no way to avoid Windows clipboard-history entries. Windows exposes registered clipboard formats specifically for excluding a clipboard transaction from monitoring, history, and cloud sync, which makes a Windows-specific fix possible without changing the paste mechanism.
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The original report and reproduction are in #1356. No separate discussion has been opened because this is a bug fix for the existing
Don't Modify Clipboardbehavior, not a new feature.Testing
handy.exe --list-devicessuccessfully.Win+Vhistory.Screenshots/Videos (if applicable)
Not included. The behavior is observable directly in the Windows
Win+Vclipboard-history panel; reproduction steps are documented in #1356.AI Assistance
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