DOC: default for clipboard parsing is to parse whitespace

Author: jreback

doc/source/io.rst

@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ Clipboard
 
 A handy way to grab data is to use the ``read_clipboard`` method, which takes
 the contents of the clipboard buffer and passes them to the ``read_table``
-method described in the next section. For instance, you can copy the following
+method. For instance, you can copy the following
 text to the clipboard (CTRL-C on many operating systems):
 
 .. code-block:: python
@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ And then import the data directly to a DataFrame by calling:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   clipdf = pd.read_clipboard(delim_whitespace=True)
+   clipdf = pd.read_clipboard()
 
 .. ipython:: python
 

pandas/io/clipboard.py

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ def read_clipboard(**kwargs):  # pragma: no cover
     -------
     parsed : DataFrame
     """
+    if kwargs.get('sep') is None and kwargs.get('delim_whitespace') is None:
+        kwargs['sep'] = '\s+'
     from pandas.util.clipboard import clipboard_get
     from pandas.io.parsers import read_table
     text = clipboard_get()