npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste

Coises

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

After Ctrl-V I have

abcd
efgh
ijkl

ijkl
efgh
abcd

And doing the same thing, I got:

abcd
efgh
ijkl

abcd
efgh
ijkl

I removed all plugins, just in case that was the cause. Debug info:

Notepad++ v8.6   (64-bit)
Build time : Nov 23 2023 - 16:58:44
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 19045.3693
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : none

I don’t have a guess as to why your results are different.

As far as thin selections, from the same starting set, I copy the first block, upward rectangular select the first letter of the second block and type x in to it.

If I do that and paste, I get:

abcd
efgh
ijkl

xabcdwer
xefghyui
xijklpkl

If, instead of typing an x, I press the right arrow key, then I get:

abcd
efgh
ijkl

qijklwer
tefghyui
oabcdpkl

The right arrow converts to an empty multiple stream selection — that’s intentional new behavior in 8.6 — and then the selection direction matters, because it preserves the selection order that was used to make the rectangular selection.

astewart77

@Coises said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

I removed all plugins, just in case that was the cause. Debug info:

Notepad++ v8.6   (64-bit)
Build time : Nov 23 2023 - 16:58:44
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 19045.3693
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : none

I don’t have a guess as to why your results are different.

OK. I tried a portable minimalist n++ and I see what you see.

My usual plugin load is:

Notepad++ v8.6   (32-bit)
Build time : Nov 29 2023 - 22:23:02
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
OS Build : 7601.0
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    AnalysePlugin (1.14.54)
    ColumnsPlusPlus (1)
    DSpellCheck (1.5)
    ExtSettings (1.3.1)
    GotoLineCol (2.4.3)
    HTMLTag_unicode (1.4.1)
    JSMinNPP (1.2308)
    MarkdownViewerPlusPlus (0.8.2)
    mimeTools (2.9)
    NppConverter (4.5)
    NppEventExec (0.9)
    NppExec (0.8.7)
    NppExport (0.4)
    NppMenuSearch (0.9.6)
    NppToolBucket (1.10.6622.41336)
    NppUISpy (1.2)
    RandomValuesNppPlugin (0.2.1)
    SurroundSelection (1.4.1)
    _CustomizeToolbar (5.3)

I’ll narrow it down, but I kinda like it the way it is.

astewart77

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

@Coises said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

I don’t have a guess as to why your results are different.

OK. I tried a portable minimalist n++ and I see what you see.

Well, not a plugin or a setting! The portable minimalist I used is an 8.6 release. I forgot that I updated my main n++ to a master on github from two weeks ago, entitled
Fix visual glichy on multi-paste and make shortcut commands more coherent

After I copied the .exe from that master to my portable dir, no plugins, default settings, the portable behaved as I have been seeing. The master still says 8.6 in the windows file properties, but the ordering of rectangular pasting is different from the 8.6 release.

Whether this is an upcoming 8.6.1 bug or a feature is probably a personal pref.

astewart77

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:
I updated my main n++ to a master on github from two weeks ago, entitled
Fix visual glichy on multi-paste and make shortcut commands more coherent

After I copied the .exe from that master to my portable dir, no plugins, default settings, the portable behaved as I have been seeing. The master still says 8.6 in the windows file properties, but the ordering of rectangular pasting is different from the 8.6 release.

More difference - with 8.6, after the paste there a single caret top left. With the change in the master commit, after the paste, there are zero width multi-carets on the right and status bar shows Sel : 3x0. A bug that was mentioned elsewhere - if you switch to another tab and back, the carets are on the left, full rectangular selection, status is Sel : 3x4.

Coises

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

More difference - with 8.6, after the paste there a single caret top left. With the change in the master commit, after the paste, there are zero width multi-carets on the right and status bar shows Sel : 3x0. A bug that was mentioned elsewhere - if you switch to another tab and back, the carets are on the left, full rectangular selection, status is Sel : 3x4.

Ugh. This sounds like paste into rectangular selection is, in the updated build, being treated as paste into multiple selection.

I haven’t (yet) managed to identify what changed to cause this, but I’d guess that either Notepad++ is processing paste differently, or it took over from letting Scintilla process it natively and isn’t duplicating Scintilla’s process accurately.

Coises

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

After I copied the .exe from that master to my portable dir, no plugins, default settings, the portable behaved as I have been seeing. The master still says 8.6 in the windows file properties, but the ordering of rectangular pasting is different from the 8.6 release.

I found out what happened.

In 8.6, your test does not show reversal. However, still in 8.6, if you do the same test except for using the Edit | Paste menu command instead of Ctrl+v, the text is pasted in reverse order.

In 8.6, Ctrl+v was associated with the Scintilla command SCI_PASTE. The menu command, however, is processed directly by Notepad++.

In the current master, Ctrl+x/c/v are mapped to the menu commands instead of the Scintilla commands. Menu cut and copy, as far as I can tell, do not behave differently than Scintilla cut and copy for rectangular selections in 8.6; it’s just menu paste.

The change happens in #0978b2e.

astewart77

@Coises said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

In the current master, Ctrl+x/c/v are mapped to the menu commands instead of the Scintilla commands.

So it’s a feature if you like having keyboard access to the menu paste method, but a bug if you don’t, because SCI_PASTE is no longer available for remapping back to Ctrl+v.

mkupper

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

So it’s a feature if you like having keyboard access to the menu paste method, but a bug if you don’t, because SCI_PASTE is no longer available for remapping back to Ctrl+v.

Removing SCI_COPY, SCI_PASTE, etc. seems like it would create problems for people who already have macros that use those SCI codes. For example, this person’s macro uses 2178 which is SCI_COPY though in his case it’s also followed by 42002 IDM_EDIT_COPY

astewart77

@mkupper said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

@astewart77 said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

So it’s a feature if you like having keyboard access to the menu paste method, but a bug if you don’t, because SCI_PASTE is no longer available for remapping back to Ctrl+v.

Removing SCI_COPY, SCI_PASTE, etc. seems like it would create problems for people who already have macros that use those SCI codes.

SCI_PASTE still exists. I meant it’s just no longer listed in the Shortcut Mapper for easy remapping. I made an NppExec macro with SCI_PASTE and mapped that to Ctrl+v. That works.

Theo Pavloudis

Is this going to get fixed now?
I am facing the same issue with 8.6.
It’s really annoying…
No plugins at all.

Alan Kilborn

@Theo-Pavloudis said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

Is this going to get fixed now?
I am facing the same issue with 8.6.
It’s really annoying…

It sure seems like you should try the latest version as of this writing (8.6.4).

mkupper

@Theo-Pavloudis said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

Is this going to get fixed now?
I am facing the same issue with 8.6.
It’s really annoying…
No plugins at all.

It is fixed in v8.6.4 but you need to disable Column Selection to Multi-Editing in the Preferences / Editing 2 tab. This setting, and the Enable Multi-Editing one in the same Preferences section were added as part of v8.6 and enabled by default. To restore the classic “normal” Notepad++ behavior people need to disable both settings. You only need to disable the Column Selection to Multi-Editing part if you are only interested in the order-of-lines issue reported in this forum thread.

Theo Pavloudis

@Alan-Kilborn @mkupper it’s still there in 8.6.8 either with Column Selection to Multi-Editing on or off.

First image is the original, second image is what happens when I paste it.
The order is reversed…

Coises

@Theo-Pavloudis said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

@Alan-Kilborn @mkupper it’s still there in 8.6.8 either with Column Selection to Multi-Editing on or off.

This was fixed in 8.6.9 (item 13 in the announcement).