However, I just checked—Alfred does pollute the clipboard with the selection when invoked like that. I guess OSX doesn't have an API to fetch the selection, other than via the services or the clipboard (maybe it's for the better, in terms of security).
IIRC some version of Keepass cleared passwords from the clipboard in such a way that even clipboard-history apps obeyed—but can't remember if this was in OSX or Linux. I wonder if this method could be used to pop the previous content back on the clipboard and leave no trace of the selection in the history.
IIRC some version of Keepass cleared passwords from the clipboard in such a way that even clipboard-history apps obeyed—but can't remember if this was in OSX or Linux. I wonder if this method could be used to pop the previous content back on the clipboard and leave no trace of the selection in the history.