Extending cut-and-paste: introduction

Some thoughts about how vanilla cut-and-paste can be extended. Some of these are already available in clipboard extensions, some aren't.

I tried organising all of my notes on this into a single, big file. But I found that too unweildly and time-consuming.

In the spirit of this blog and trying to figure out and present ideas in a bottom-up -- as opposed to top-down -- fashion, I thought I'd try presenting it instead in a piecemeal fashion.

Starting now...