Better Copy Paste?

It would be helpful if there could be an improved Copy/Paste feature within MuseScore. As far as I know, this doesn't exist yet.

For regular text there are clipping managers which work with text - though these may be OS specific, and limited in what they will do with some applications. There may be other issues with some of those tools - uncertain behaviour, charges, subscription models, though some are free and work quite well with text.

There may not be anything which works quite so well with clipboard fragments from programs like MuseScore.

A good clipping tool which works within MuseScore could be very helpful.

Here is a use case.

Suppose you have a score with bars and a chord sequence. Some of the measures are already orchestrated, with specific instrumentation, and specific rhythmic patterns for each instrument. This might be particularly relevant for string accompaniments. There are only a limite number of patterns - each corresponding to a fairly standard chord representation. Thus one might have patterns for C, for Gm, for F7 say. If there are long sections which use these patterns, then first create a temporary score with those patterns already worked out. Then copy the patterns in turn into a tool which remembers which pattern is which - ideally allowing the user to give each pattern an identifiable name - which might just as well be something like the name of a chord symbol.

Then to quickly generate the required accompaniment, simply go to an appropriate bar, and activate this clipping tool. Select the require pattern and paste it into the score. Repeat this for each new measure which has to be filled in.

This kind of procedure can currently be done using an auxiliary file, or a part of a score which is used as a temporary work space, but it requires a lot of operations.

Note also the patterns to be pasted into a score could be assigned keyboard shortcuts, so this approach could be very powerful.

Essentially what is suggested is a clipping manager which actually works with MuseScore. Currently it is not known whether there any which work, and the ability to define and use keyboard shortcuts would be pretty much essential.

If such a clipping manager could be built in to MuseScore that would be very helpful, and note - although the use case here refers to copying bars of music, it could be very general and not only restricted in that way. However my own current interest is in applications of that kind.