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    • zbrush zbrusherZ
      zbrush zbrusher
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      In npp 8.6.1 CTRL+ALT+ARROW do not set multi-caret for multi-editing.
      In npp 8.5.8 CTRL+ALT+ARROW works well.

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      • zbrush zbrusherZ
        zbrush zbrusher
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        Anyone else have this problem?

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @zbrush zbrusher
          last edited by Alan Kilborn

          @zbrush-zbrusher said in Multi-edit modes:

          Anyone else have this problem?

          Yup.
          You could have answered this question for yourself by having a look at other recent postings on this site, or on the official Notepad++ issues list (see FAQ for where that is).
          See same for possible workarounds.

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          • zbrush zbrusherZ
            zbrush zbrusher @Alan Kilborn
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            @Alan-Kilborn said in Multi-edit modes:

            official Notepad++ issues list

            Thanks.

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            • mkupperM
              mkupper @Alan Kilborn
              last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn said in Multi-edit modes:

              Anyone else have this problem?

              Yup.
              You could have answered this question for yourself by having a look at other recent postings on this site, or on the official Notepad++ issues list (see FAQ for where that is).
              See same for possible workarounds.

              I saw @zbrush-zbrusher’s comments as a valid query. The developers of Notepad++ and Scintilla should never have silently hijacked existing functions to add new features.

              In this case people have been using CTRL+ALT+ARROW as part of using Notepad++/Scintilla. They understood what those keys did and had come to expect certain behavior and its glitches or limitations. CTRL+ALT+ARROW was hijacked to implement what seems like mystifying, unpredictable, and unwanted behavior. This new behavior is now also the default meaning people are forced to either figure how how to revert to an old version of the software or may spend time discovering and adding magical settings such as noColumnToMultiSelect.xml.

              The breaking of Ctrl+drag to copy text is another example of this.

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              • rdipardoR
                rdipardo @mkupper
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                @mkupper said in Multi-edit modes:

                The developers of Notepad++ and Scintilla should never have silently hijacked existing functions to add new features.

                I think they were trying to implement what they thought their users wanted. It’s an open secret that VS Code’s popularity has given the maintainers of old-school text editors a pathological inferiority complex. We can blame that for the misguided attempt to placate a younger generation of coders who expect everything to be JSON-configurable, with high-DPI awareness and ChatGPT integration.

                It’s hard to admit your life’s work is chained to a legacy API with zero capacity for features that were not even dreamed of when Win32 was new. Easier to throw out a few VS-Code-seeming features in the hope of keeping the kiddies interested for a while longer. I wouldn’t get angry over it. In the end it’s just plain sad.

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                • zbrush zbrusherZ
                  zbrush zbrusher @mkupper
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                  @mkupper Thanks for magical settings “noColumnToMultiSelect.xml”.

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