oh boy, as always, thank you for your patience, expertise, and explanation.
I of course was using the numbers in the history switcher pane, NOT the past clipboard # as you have explained it.
I will work with this and hopefully come up with a solution that works for rtf and plain, probably the solution you provided earlier will be perfect, I'll have to keep in mind that the most recently copied data is 0, =ing the clipboard.
No, it does not work.
It works for past clipboard 1 but not 2 and higher.
I'd like to have a set of keys - 1 thru 10 (with whatever modifier)
that will paste either plain or rich text from past clipboards.
ie
⇧⌘1 will do a simple paste since that is the current system clipboard
⇧⌘2 will paste what is in the past clipboard #1 and not change the order regardless of rich or plain text
⇧⌘3 will paste what is in the past clipboard #2 and not change the order regardless of rich or plain text
⇧⌘4 will paste what is in the past clipboard #3 and not change the order regardless of rich or plain text
etc etc -