Macros don't work
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would you mind posting your debug-info from the ? menu (the last menu item) ?
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Notepad++ v7.7.1 (64-bit)
Build time : Jun 16 2019 - 21:24:47
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll PreviewHTML.dll -
How about posting the section of shortcuts.xml that defines your macro?
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@Alan-Kilborn
how could i post my section ? theres no option for post images, sorry for my ignorance, i m new in the forum too -
it might be easier to just copy and paste? :-)
I would put three tildes before your pasted text and three afterwards, that ensures
that the formatting isn’t lost. Something like~~~ text ~~~
if there is something do something else go get a cup of coffee
In order to link to an image the sytanx is
![](web address to an image)
like![](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/uploads/system/site-logo.png)
to show
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But don’t ever do an image of text/code, please!
If someone can’t copy and paste it to try it out, the likelihood of you getting the help you want goes way down!BTW, the syntax
~~~ your text here ~~~
(all on one line) doesn’t quite work; you need to do:~~~
your text here
~~~
which will render verbatim with the black background rectangle.
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<NotepadPlus> <InternalCommands /> <Macros> <Macro name="Trim Trailing Space and Save" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="83"> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42024" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41006" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> <Macro name="Trim Trailing Space and Save2" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="83"> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42024" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41006" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> <Macro name="html" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="69"> <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> <Macro name="html structure" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="78"> <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> </Macros> <UserDefinedCommands> <Command name="Get PHP help" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="112">http://www.php.net/$(CURRENT_WORD)</Command> <Command name="Wikipedia Search" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="114">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=$(CURRENT_WORD)</Command> <Command name="Open file in another instance" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="117">$(NPP_FULL_FILE_PATH) $(CURRENT_WORD) -nosession -multiInst</Command> </UserDefinedCommands> <PluginCommands /> <ScintillaKeys /> </NotepadPlus>
Ok, that´s my document
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I am assuming the
html
andhtml structure
documents are the ones you recorded and saved – and I assume right now, you are just using the copy/paste and paste as the recorded macros for simplicity’s sake…Now, after you exit out of Notepad++ and go back in (or reboot, or whatever), are those macros still in your Macros menu? And does your
shortcuts.xml
still show those macros, or have they been deleted?If they are still there, do they work? Make a selection, then do Macros > html structure to copy and paste. Then Macros > html to just paste again.
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Ok, i did all of you said me.When i recorded those macros i just copy and paste for comfort, all of my macros still there, but how i said before it’s an empty space, and it do too in shortcut.xml, macros don’t save copy and paste things, because of that it doesn’t work, why does it happen?
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let us try something different, goto https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.1.html and download one of the portable versions, the zip package or 7z package. You DON’T have to uninstall the current version just make sure, that you don’t have your current version running when redoing the test with the macros. If this works, then I suspect something corrupted your config files.
So, the steps are- download a portable version
- unpack it where ever you want
- make sure the installed version is not running
- start npp from the downloaded package
- create you macro and check if it works
- stop npp and restart npp and see if the macro still works.
If this doesn’t work, then you need to explain in details what exactly you did in each step described above.