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    • Speedy MercerS
      Speedy Mercer
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      Note: Notepad++ v7.8.5 64bit

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn
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        @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

        That kinds bites, doesn’t it?

        Well, it depends upon your point-of-view. I’ve been using Notepad++ for maybe 4 years and I’ve never noticed that you can’t do this with it. So, while I admit it seems like a problem, I guess for me I’d have to say it isn’t a big problem.

        I guess the obvious workaround is to:

        • instead of starting to drag —> press ctrl+x
        • instead of the drag movement to destination —> cursor to there
        • instead of dropping —> press ctrl+v

        But, if you want to file a bug report, you need to follow the instructions here on doing so; no one that has power to fix it will see it here in this forum.

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        • Speedy MercerS
          Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
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          @Alan-Kilborn Thanks. I just figured I was overlooking something. I was a TextPad user for decades and was used to it’s interface/features but was thinking seriously of switching to Notepad++ and this was the first thing I “had issue” with because the work arounds require either keyboard input or “extra” mouse clicks instead of a simple drag and drop. This is something I do often so it popped up on my radar.
          I will turn in a request for this in an upcoming release I guess.

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          • Speedy MercerS
            Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
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            @Alan-Kilborn Ok, taking your suggestion, I followed the link but am having a hard time understanding just what exactly I need to do. I’m 63 and not as swift to pick up things as I once was so please forgive me.
            Here is my repository with an initial branch.
            https://github.com/herohog/hello-world/branches

            If I understand things right, I need to create a “Pull Request”.
            What I am asking for is this: “RFC: Add ability to drag and drop selected txt to an area above or below the currently viewed screen by simply moving the mouse to/past the screen border to cause the screen to scroll to the desired new area.
            Current work arounds require either keyboard input or “extra” mouse clicks instead of a simple drag and drop. This is something I do often so it popped up on my radar when I switched to Notepad++.”

            Any suggestions?

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            • Speedy MercerS
              Speedy Mercer
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              • Speedy MercerS
                Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
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                @Alan-Kilborn After finding an example, I went with this: https://github.com/herohog/Notepad_plus_plus/issues/1

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                • guy038G
                  guy038
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                  Hello @speedy-mercer, @alan-kilborn, and All,

                  @speedy-mercer, why didn’t you add a new issue directly at the official N++ issues tracker ?

                  https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

                  Simply, click on the green New issue button, on the right !


                  Now, I verified, for instance, with the Microsoft text editor write.exe :

                  • Run the DOS command write license.txt

                  • Select a block of text to be moved to a remote part of the current file

                  • While pressing the left mouse button, move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, or to any other direction

                  => The selection remains active and the screen scrolls towards the selected direction ;-))

                  • As soon as you reach the location where you need to move ( or copy ) your selection, just release the left mouse button

                  Remark :

                  Microsoft Word does have this same behaviour, too ! However, the basic Microsoft Notepad.exe editor cannot reproduce it


                  I’m really wondering how I could have missed this obvious mouse gesture since more than a decade ?! I’ve never noticed that this mouse gesture was forbidden, when using Notepad++ :-(

                  In my opinion, this would be a nice improvement and would make the operation of Notepad++ even more natural ;-))

                  Best Regards,

                  guy038

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn
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                    @guy038 said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                    @speedy-mercer, why didn’t you add a new issue directly at the official N++ issues tracker ?
                    https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues
                    Simply, click on the green New issue button, on the right !

                    @guy038 Could you [ since it is locked! ;-) ] perhaps update the FAQ entry for this? At the very least maybe add the click on the green New issue button verbage from above?

                    I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone misinterpret the feature request instructions like @Speedy-Mercer , but I suppose the instructions could be improved.

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn
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                      In the interest of fairness, I attempted “text-drag-and-drop-with-hopeful-autoscroll” with the Scintilla demo editor, and it behaved exactly as Notepad++ does in this regard. Perhaps this is something the Scintilla component needs to support in order for Notepad++ to (easily) support it as well?

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse
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                        See https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/497/
                        but that means Npp would have to update scintilla again, not sure this happens any time soon.

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
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                          @Ekopalypse

                          How come whenever I click on one of these Scintilla issue tracker links I feel like I always see Acknowledged. It is unlikely I will work on this. :-)

                          I had said:

                          I attempted “text-drag-and-drop-with-hopeful-autoscroll” with the Scintilla demo editor,

                          I guess I tried a non-latest version. :-)

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse
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                            This is something that, if I ever finish PySnack, I will definitely do too.
                            Bring the users onboard. :-D

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                            • EkopalypseE
                              Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
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                              @Alan-Kilborn

                              What made me smile was that statement:

                              after nearly 12 years of waiting I decided to take a shot. It is an important feature to me.

                              :-D

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
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                                @Ekopalypse

                                At least it wasn’t “Neil” that said that! :-)

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                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
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                                  @Alan-Kilborn

                                  No, it was the OP.
                                  No one can say that the OP wasn’t patient. :-D

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                                  • Speedy MercerS
                                    Speedy Mercer @Alan Kilborn
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                                    @Alan-Kilborn said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                    I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone misinterpret the feature request instructions like @Speedy-Mercer , but I suppose the instructions could be improved.

                                    Cut me some slack, I’m unfamiliar with the way things work here, that’s why I asked for a little help. Yes, even us old geeks can be “newbies” when plopped into a new environment. ;-)

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                                    • Speedy MercerS
                                      Speedy Mercer @Ekopalypse
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                                      @Ekopalypse said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                      @Alan-Kilborn

                                      What made me smile was that statement:

                                      after nearly 12 years of waiting I decided to take a shot. It is an important feature to me.

                                      :-D

                                      Where did that statement come from? I can’t find it in this thread yet Ekopalypse seems to think it was from me.

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                                      • EkopalypseE
                                        Ekopalypse @Speedy Mercer
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                                        @Speedy-Mercer

                                        No, this is from the scintilla thread I linked previously.

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                                        • Alan KilbornA
                                          Alan Kilborn @Speedy Mercer
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                                          @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                          Cut me some slack

                                          Apologies, there was certainly no ill intent towards you in what I said; if anything I was “picking on” the FAQ entry. :-)

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                                          • Alan KilbornA
                                            Alan Kilborn @Speedy Mercer
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                                            @Speedy-Mercer said in How to drag selected text to area currently off screen:

                                            Where did that statement come from? I can’t find it in this thread yet Ekopalypse seems to think it was from me.

                                            No, Eko doesn’t think it was from you. It’s from this link: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/497/

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