CTRL drag copy stopped working 8.6.1

[Alan Hague]

I use select, CTRL drag, to copy text every few minutes. Today it doesn’t work. I have searched and searched for a solution and can find none.
thanks is advance if anyone has a suggestion.
It works in Word, so I don’t think it is the mouse or keyboard at fault.

[Coises]

@Alan-Hague said in CTRL drag copy stopped working 8.6.1:

I use select, CTRL drag, to copy text every few minutes. Today it doesn’t work. I have searched and searched for a solution and can find none.
thanks is advance if anyone has a suggestion.
It works in Word, so I don’t think it is the mouse or keyboard at fault.

Workaround is to drag without Ctrl key down, then, once in position, press Ctrl and hold down while you release.

I don’t like it either, but it appears to have been introduced by a change in Scintilla, and thus not easily rectified (if possible at all) by Notepad++. See this GitHub issue and discussion.

Edit to add: I only just realized you don’t have to wait until you reach the drop position to press the Ctrl key. Anytime after you press the left mouse button down is OK — you just can’t press Ctrl before the mouse button.

[Alan Hague]

@Coises Thank you!!! I was just getting ready in reinstall and decided to check my post again and your reply was there.
It is goofy, but it sure works!
Alan

[Blake Girardot]

Wow, this is a really often used UI process that is standard across most applications.

Thank you both for commenting or I would have struggled to find a solution.

[Coises]

In 8.6.3-RC2, if the newly-restored setting at Settings | Preferences | Editing 2: Multi-Editing: Enable Multi-Editing (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection) is not checked, the familiar Ctrl+drag behavior is restored.

This seems like a reasonable compromise — and since the source of the new behavior is a change in Scintilla, outside the control of Notepad++, it’s probably the only reasonable compromise possible.

[mzk-1]

Thank you all for all of this valuable information.

[Andrey Ovcharenko]

@Coises You saved my day!

[BELLJOHN]

@Coises
This is a real solution once for all.
Thank you so much Coises!

[Chris Millensifer]

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