SCI_LINEDOWNRECTEXTEND issue

Alan Kilborn

Another thing you could try is to run another program that uses the “Shift+Alt+arrows” keycombos to do something.

Visual Studio’s code editor supports this, so you could try it there, but I suspect maybe you aren’t a user of this. Same for the text editing product with the confusing name called “VS Code”.

An easy download of something you could try is the SciTE text editor: https://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html
If you’re inclined, grab that executable, run it, put some lines of text in it and try to select a column block with your problematic “Shift+Alt+Down”. My bet is that it will not work there either.

Javi Mik

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but even when you think you aren’t running anything, there is a ton of stuff running that you are unaware of.

Yeah, I guessed, that’s why I tried rebooting (I also checked processes in Task Manager but I had no idea what could possibly cause this issue… =/)

I’ve never used it, but maybe give this a whirl:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hot_keys_list.html

Of course, it could be something else, but I really think you need to eliminate this possibility first.

Just checked and “Alt+Shift+Down” doesn’t appear in the list, but…

If you’re inclined, grab that executable, run it, put some lines of text in it and try to select a column block with your problematic “Shift+Alt+Down”. My bet is that it will not work there either.

Yeah, exactly. I tried that and it’s not working either =/

Alan Kilborn

@Javi-Mik said in SCI_LINEDOWNRECTEXTEND issue:

I tried that and it’s not working either

…which points to something other than Notepad++ causing this problem. Unfortunately, I’m out of ideas on what it could be. :-(

Ekopalypse

@Javi-Mik
Could it be that your keyboard layout isn’t what you think it should be?

Alan Kilborn

@Ekopalypse said in SCI_LINEDOWNRECTEXTEND issue:

Could it be that your keyboard layout isn’t what you think it should be?

I’m intrigued by this. :-)
How does one misinterpret which key is “down”?

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn

If your physical keyboard has, let’s say, English layout then the z key
is in the second row (counted from bottom to top) on the left side.
Now if you add another keyboard layout like German, the z becomes a y.
Maybe there is also a keyboard layout which allows remapping of arrow and ctrl/shift keys !??

Alan Kilborn

@Ekopalypse said in SCI_LINEDOWNRECTEXTEND issue:

Maybe there is also a keyboard layout which allows remapping of arrow and ctrl/shift keys !??

Or maybe the “down” key?
Because OP didn’t have problem with other Shift+Alt+arrow combinations.

Terry R

It is possible in Windows 10 to change to a different keyboard layout, such as Dvorak. Of course the key indicators might say one thing but the layout loaded dictates what character is shown on screen when a key is pressed.

One would have to be a touch typist in this instance, but I don’t think we are in this situation for this issue.

Another thought is the display driver. It’s possible to invert or rotate the screen output using hot keys, although if they were active I would suspect we’d be seeing a screen rotation as the hotkey was pressed. That option can be turned off in the display settings but then I would assume the hotkey would then be apparent to Notepad++ and there would be no issue. But it might be worth a look to see if the problematic hotkey is used by the display driver.

Terry

Ekopalypse

As more as I think about it I don’t think it is related to different keyboard layout but to have different keyboard layouts configured. The default key combination to switch between layouts is LEFT ALT + SHIFT. And it is not listed in HotKeyList.

Ekopalypse

@Ekopalypse

But testing this reveals that the layout gets switched but column selection still works :-(