Add a magic function to paste contents of clipboard

[Fernando Perez]

It would be very useful to have a magic function that directly inserts the clipboard contents into the read buffer. See this thread on the mailing list for background and comments by Robert on the implementation:

http://lists.ipython.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-user/2009-March/006210.html
http://lists.ipython.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-user/2009-March/006228.html

Note: when implementing this, care must be paid to history synchronization issues. Do we want the history to be updated or not? What about the readline buffer itself?

[Robert Kern (robert-kern)]

Here's a start:

  https://code.launchpad.net/~robert-kern/ipython/clipboard

It works mostly like %cpaste except for the interaction with readline, of course.

[Fernando Perez (fdo.perez)]

This was included in the 0.10 release, it's called %paste.