When comparing Ditto vs Rapid environment editor, the Slant community recommends Ditto for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” Ditto is ranked 20th while Rapid environment editor is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Ditto is:
It just works...always. It's fast and quick, which can save you thousands of hours.
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Pros
Pro It's reliable, fast and quick
It just works...always. It's fast and quick, which can save you thousands of hours.
Pro Very configurable
You can set all sorts of things from size of database to size of individual clips, types of objects to copy/paste, which hotkeys to use etc.
Pro Scriptable clips
Clips can be used/changed with scripts during copy or paste.
Pro Warnings
Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.
Pro Easy
Editing of Windows environment variables is easy, splits long lines.
Pro Resolve variables values, make easy a refactoring of PATH by extracting different elements in their own new variable
Pro Convert variables between verbatim and expandable
Windows supports referencing variables within variables, but only if they're marked in the registry as expandable, and conversion between the two types is exposed in the context menu for each variable.
Cons
Con Uninstaller removes nothing
After uninstalling removal of almost every file manually from different directories is still necessary since the actual uninstaller only displays "other files still remain".
Con Minimizes after each paste
You have to activate it twice to paste twice.
Con Does not support HDPI displays
On high DPI/resolution displays, the UI is very small. Practically unusable.
Con RTF bug is still present in latest Beta version
You can turn on the option to draw RTF text in the clip list, but it no longer works in Windows 10 Ditto (64bit), and the latest Beta version available today - which claims to have fixed the bug - still has the same bug. It will no longer draw RTF text as-is in the clip list.
Con The UI is very confusing
Con Can't use any shortcut you wish
Anything with spacebar, windows key (that the system also uses) is not possible.
Con Portable version will remove all clipboard record once it is updated to newer version
Con Simple
Some may not consider it a "power" user tool.