How to prevent newline character when marking a line

Michael Fitzen

Hi,

i already posted it at the google+
community:https://plus.google.com/+MichaelFitzen/posts/XTRkh1bTL76

How can i prevent the editor to place a newline character after marking
a line via line numbers?

For example: I have a txt file with 3 lines. If i mark line 2 by
clicking the line number the cursor jumps into line 3. When i press
ctrl+c it will copy the newline character in line 3. When i paste the
copied line 2 into a plain file this files has 2 lines. The one with the
content of line 2 and a blank one (line 3). I don´t want this to happen.
I only want to copy the content of line 2!

A workaround like press SHIFT+LEFT ARROW or something like this is not a solution for me! Any other editor can handle this too…

Regards

Michael

guy038

Hello Michael,

I think that you can achieve your goal with a macro. Tested with N++ v6.7.9, it’s quite OK !

So, just follow these few steps below :

Open a new tab
Select the menu option View - Word Wrap or click on the associate button on the Toolbar
Type some spaces or tab characters, followed by any text, in order to create a long line which is wrapped, in, for instance, three lines
Type on the Enter key, to create the End of Line character(s)
Place the cursor, anywhere, in the LAST physical line of this long line
Select the menu option Macro - Start Recording or a click on the button, with a red circle, on the Toolbar
Hit, THREE times, the Origin key
Hit the SHIFT + End shortcut
Hit the CTRL + C shortcut
Hit the Left Arrow key
Select the menu option Macro - Stop Recording or a click on the button, with a black square, on the Toolbar
Select the menu option Macro - Save Current Recorded Macro…
Enter, for instance, Copy Visible Line as name of this new macro
Choose a shortcut to activate this macro ( take care NOT to use an existing N++ or plugin shortcut ! )
Click on the OK button, to valid your choices

Now, to copy the entire text of a line, without its End of Line characters :

Locate the cursor anywhere in that line
Select the menu option Macro - Copy Visible Line or its associated shortcut
Place your cursor anywhere else in that new tab, or, even, in an other file, in a new line or inside some text
Finally, hit the classical CTRL + V shortcut, to paste the line contents, ONLY, at this new cursor location

Et voilà !

Note :

We need to hit THREE times on the Origin key :

To reach the beginning of the current physical line
To reach the first non blank character of the entire line
To reach the very beginning of the entire line

Best Regards,

guy038

Michael Fitzen

Hi & thx for your reply!

This is maybe a workaround. I will try this. Thanks for your help.

But why NP++ can`t handle this one like every other editor do? I tried to contact the author about this, but did not get any response. Is there any possibility to reporting bugs or feature request?

Scott Sumner

guy038,

I found that doing the origin/home key THREE times causes any leading space not to be copied. Decreasing it to TWO times put the entire line (without the line-endings) into the paste buffer.

guy038

Hi Michael and Scott,

Indeed, Scott, if your cursor is located on the first physical line of a long line, you only need two hits on the Home key.

However, if it’s located on the other physical lines of this long line, three hits on the Home key are needed.

But, I found a work-around :

Two hits on the Home key, which will always locate the cursor on the first physical line, whatever the cursor’s position
One Alt + Home that always place the cursor at the very beginning of the current physical line

So, the different macro’s actions are :

Hit, TWICE, the Home key
Hit the ALT + Home shortcut
Hit the SHIFT + End shortcut
Hit the CTRL + C shortcut
Hit the Left Arrow key

Cheers,

guy038

glennfromiowa

Hi Michael,

I’m not sure what other editors you are using that select just the line without the newline when you click on the line number. Obviously, you have your preferences, but my main reason for replying is that I would consider it a bug if it did not select the newline when clicking on the line number. It is much easier to move lines around if I can just click on the line number and then click on the text to drag the whole line up or down. I would hope any feature requests to change this would include the option to select text either with or without the newline.

Meta Chuh

resurfaced because of this github issue report:
Clicking on the line number with the reverse mouse arrow selects a statement along with “newline”.
which was just commented with:

if it suffices you, to copy the line at the cursor to your clipboard with [shift]+[ctrl]+[c], completely trimmed of leading spaces, tabs and trailing line feeds, there’s a simple alternative, only using the built in functions:

open %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml in notepad++.

paste the following code to your <Macros> section:

        <Macro name="Copy Line" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="67">
            <Action type="0" message="2453" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2453" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2453" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2452" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2452" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2452" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        </Macro>

save shortcuts.xml.

restart notepad++.

now regardless of where you put your cursor in any line, [shift]+[ctrl]+[c] will trim-select the whole line and copy it to your clipboard.
paste it as usual using [ctrl]+[v] 😉

source: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/84/how-to-prevent-newline-character-when-marking-a-line by our regex guru guy038.

btw: where is @glennfromiowa ?
why does he always leave for so long ?
ps: he’s the one, who originally reintroduced the welcome to … for new visitors 👍

Alan Kilborn

@Meta-Chuh

btw: where is @glennfromiowa ?

Yea! Why do we miss him when he is not here? Maybe it is his welcoming (but nerdy) face picture. :)

Meta Chuh

@Alan-Kilborn

Yea! Why do we miss him when he is not here? Maybe it is his welcoming (but nerdy) face picture. :)

nerdy: so am i.
welcoming: not just that. recalling his posts from memory, he’s at least as elevated in knowledge as you or me, if not even far more than that.