big ticket is overhauling the config format. Previously, the index looked like this:

4a93d8d7 6b5d69df
2143c202

Each random string of 8 characters was a label for data under a particular mime type, and each line was a selection (a selection can have multiple mimetypes). Each label had its own file to store the actual clipboard data, with the mimetype included in that file.

this worked fine, but I’ve been wanting to implement the feature where the current clipboard contents are accessible via file. If I moved the mimetype out of the data files, I could just use symlinks because each file has exactly the data I need; using the old format, i’d need to use libfuse to make “fake” files without the mimetypes instead.

this was a lot more annoying than i expected (thank god for address sanitizer, caught many mistakes), but I eventually got it working. I think i’m nearing the finish line