Full file Path to Clipboard with forward slash

keep2000

I work with webpages and use Full file Path to Clipboard function a lot. When I edit a file and want to copy the path to a browser I need to replace backslash to forward slash.
Is there an option to copy the path with forward slash instead of backslash?
Like from
D:\dev\websites\mydomain.com\content\pages\contact.html
to
D:/dev/websites/mydomain.com/content/pages/contact.html
So when I delete the beginning, I’ll get the correct url

It’s would be very-very usefull when you use NppFTP which stores the local file according the real directory structure of the server.

Alan Kilborn

@keep2000

Record the following Replace All action as a macro:

Assign the macro to an unused keycombo.

To use, select the text where you want the conversion to happen, and press the keycombo.

Sector Man

Try this tool… Path Copy Copy
https:// pathcopycopy . github . io

PeterJones

@Sector-Man ,

Please don’t suggest non-Notepad++ solutions in a Notepad++ forum, unless there is no way to do it in Notepad++. Since it was from years ago, and there were no complaints about Alan’s suggestion, there is no need for pointing to an external tool. (Further, that tool is copying paths from the Windows Explorer; the original post from two years ago was asking about copying filenames from the name of a text file open in Notepad++, so not only is your suggestion off-topic, it’s also just plain wrong.)

mkupper

The recent post prompts me to think about if there would be value to adding a feature request. In the past options such as Full file Path to Clipboard were on the main right-click menu for a file tab. Within the past few years the Full file Path to Clipboard tab menu option was moved to being a sub-menu of Copy to Clipboard. This was shifted on or before v8.5.3 release in May 2023.

As the Copy to Clipboard sub-menu is fairly short it means we could two more items to this sub-menu without cluttering the user interface.

The Copy to Clipboard sub-options could become:

Copy Full File Path
Copy Full File Path using forward slashes /
Copy Filename
Copy Current Dir. Path using forward slashes /

Windows now supports both backslash and forward slash but many older applications. including the command prompt only work with backslash style paths. Web developers likely will appreciate having the forward slash version available.

Alan Kilborn

As someone that has no need ever for forward slash versions, such new menu items would probably annoy me.

@mkupper said in Full file Path to Clipboard with forward slash:

Web developers likely will appreciate having the forward slash version available.

Don’t some of the plugins that target web development (presuming there are some) offer such a copy operation.

If nothing else, this behavior could easily be scripted:

notepad.getCurrentFilename().replace('\\', '/')

mkupper

To closer-replicate what @keep2000 was asking for I took @Alan-Kilborn’s code and created a new scriptlet

editor.copyText("file://" + str(notepad.getCurrentFilename().replace('\\', '/')))

and then assigned the keyboard shortcut Alt+/ to it. Alt+/ now loads the current forward slash formatted file path into the copy/paste buffer.

In my case also I wanted the file:// prefix as part of the results.