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    • Paul WormerP
      Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
      last edited by Paul Wormer

      @paul-wormer
      I’m afraid my question wasn’t clear, so here are two pictures for further clarification.

      1. When I am defining the macro, I see this:
      While defing.png
      Hence, when I copy (ctrl-c) this selection, I copy lines without CRLF (eol chars). This is what I want.

      2. After I have executed the macro, I see this:
      While executing.png
      Hence, when I copy (ctrl-c) this selection, I copy lines with CRLF (eol chars). This is not what I want.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Paul Wormer
        last edited by PeterJones

        @paul-wormer ,

        I cannot tell what you’re doing wrong, but when I recorded Alan’s steps from this post, but used columns 1-5 instead of 5-22, it did exactly what I expected.

        The resulting macro is

                <Macro name="22717" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
                    <Action type="0" message="2316" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42020" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="0" message="2318" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="0" message="2428" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="0" message="2429" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42020" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                </Macro>
        

        (this does everything except the paste at the end: ctrl home, start select, ctrl end, make column mode, copy)

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
          last edited by

          Doing a bit of digging into what @peterjones supplied…

          From here:
          https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/scintilla/include/Scintilla.h

          One can see that 2428 and 2429 are the key things that get one into column mode in this macro; evidence:

          #define SCI_CHARLEFTRECTEXTEND 2428
          #define SCI_CHARRIGHTRECTEXTEND 2429
          

          The “RECT” part of those is key as it plays to column select mode instead of stream select mode.

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          • Paul WormerP
            Paul Wormer @PeterJones
            last edited by

            @alan-kilborn@peter-jones
            Thank you for the hints. I will be away for a few days but after return I will read your answers in more detail. I’ll compare Alan’s recipe (from which I learned the procedure but I had forgotten the link) with my steps and l will look into my shortcuts.xml to see the result.

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            • Paul WormerP
              Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
              last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn @PETER-JONES
              I’m back and looked first at Alan’s procedure from Januari 19, 2022. This is the post that I thought I remembered, but I see now that my memory failed me and that I did not follow the exact same steps. However, when I now copy them exactly, I encounter a peculiarity: my alt-shift-right gives the following popup:

              alt-shift-right.png
              The Shortcut mapper>Scintilla commands assigns alt-shift-right to: SCI_CHARRIGHTRECTEXTEND, which sounds okay and not like a popup of (part of) the Edit menu. As far as I’m aware, I did not fiddle around with any Npp keys, so that I have default settings. The debug info is:

              Notepad++ v8.3.3 (64-bit)
              Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
              Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
              Command Line :
              Admin mode : OFF
              Local Conf mode : OFF
              Cloud Config : OFF
              OS Name : Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
              OS Version : 2009
              OS Build : 19043.1586
              Current ANSI codepage : 1252
              Plugins : ColumnTools.dll DSpellCheck.dll HexEditor.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll PythonScript.dll

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              • Paul WormerP
                Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
                last edited by

                @paul-wormer Correction: Alan’s post is from 2021 not 2022.

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                • PeterJonesP
                  PeterJones @Paul Wormer
                  last edited by PeterJones

                  @paul-wormer ,

                  Something is going wrong with your recording – something getting in the way, or what have you. So just skip the recording, and use my pre-recorded macro instead: exit all instances of Notepad++, edit shortcuts.xml (you can safely do it in a new instance of Notepad++, or in a separate editor), paste the macro I supplied in the macros-section, save, exit Notepad++ (or other editor). Run Notepad++, and a macro named “22717” will show up in your macro menu. That should do what you described you wanted (since it’s what I recorded when I did what you said you wanted)

                  which sounds okay and not like a popup of (part of) the Edit menu

                  What you displayed is not “part of the Edit menu”, what you displayed was the Right Click Context Menu, which means Notepad++ saw a “right click” at some point while you were in the editor panel of Notepad++.

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                  • Paul WormerP
                    Paul Wormer @PeterJones
                    last edited by

                    @peterjones Your macro works. Thank you.

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                    • Paul WormerP
                      Paul Wormer @PeterJones
                      last edited by

                      @peterjones
                      My mistake was silly, yet other newbies may make it too:
                      I interpreted alt+shift-left as alt-shift-left-mouse and not as alt-shift-left-arrow. (And similarly for right).

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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
                        last edited by

                        @paul-wormer

                        I could be wrong, but I don’t think any mouse action in the editing window will be macro-recorded – you have to do everything via keyboard.

                        Also, if I’m trying to express mouse actions here in a Community posting, I might do:

                        • Ctrl+click (= hold Ctrl while left-clicking the mouse)
                        • Alt+rclick (= hold Alt while right-clicking the mouse)
                        • Shift+ dclick (= hold Shift while double-clicking the left mouse button)
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