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    • bitagorasB
      bitagoras @Scott Sumner
      last edited by

      @Scott-Sumner

      ok but I think I got your point ;-)

      Probably this GIF is only visible from my IP.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones
        last edited by

        I can see the animated gif. It may be that Scott’s connection is being filtered from seeing s2.gifyu.com – I know that my employer blocks many file-sharing sites; fortunately, imgur is not one of them (amazingly enough), so I can upload to and see embedded images from imgur, which is quite helpful here.

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        • guy038G
          guy038
          last edited by guy038

          Hi, @bitagoras, and All,

          I found out a work-around to simulate the behavior of your animated gif picture !

          I suppose 3 hypotheses :

          • The Multi-Editing feature is enabled ( Settings > Preferences… > Editing > Multi-Editing settings )

          • The BetterMultiSelection plugin is installed and enabled

          • The Ctrl+ D shortcut is assigned to the Scintilla function SCI_SELECTION DUPLICATE ( and not to SCI_LINEDUPLICATE ! )


          So, assuming this sample test, below , in a new tab :

          var1, var2, object1, object2, object3, flag2, flag3
          
          • Place the cursor right before the string var1 ( without the Ctrl key pressed )

          • Holding down a Ctrl key, left click, right in front of all the other strings, in order to get a total of 7 cursors !

          Now :

          • Backspace * 2

          • Enter

          You should get a 7- lines selection, below :

          var1
          var2
          object1
          object2
          object3
          flag2
          flag3
          

          Note that the SP notation, below, represents a hit on the Space bar

          • Type obj.

          • Shift + End

          • Ctrl + D

          • Right

          • Type SP=SParg["

          • Shift + End

          • Ctrl + D

          • Right

          • Type "]SP#SPDefinitionSPofSP

          • Esc

          You obtain the following text :

          obj.var1 = arg["var1"] # Definition of var1
          obj.var2 = arg["var2"] # Definition of var2
          obj.object1 = arg["object1"] # Definition of object1
          obj.object2 = arg["object2"] # Definition of object2
          obj.object3 = arg["object3"] # Definition of object3
          obj.flag2 = arg["flag2"] # Definition of flag2
          obj.flag3 = arg["flag3"] # Definition of flag3
          

          Now, regarding the second block, we start, again, with the following text :

          var1, var2, object1, object2, object3, flag2, flag3
          
          • Place the cursor right before the string var1 ( without the Ctrl key pressed )

          • Holding down a Ctrl key, left click, right in front of all the other strings, in order to get a total of 7 cursors

          Then :

          • Backspace * 2

          • Enter

          Again , you’ll obtain the 7- lines selection, below :

          var1
          var2
          object1
          object2
          object3
          flag2
          flag3
          

          Now :

          • Tab

          • Type "

          • Shift + End

          • Ctrl + D

          • Right

          • Type ":SPobj.

          • End

          • Type ,

          • Esc

          And… you get the expected text, with a leading tabulation :

          	"var1": obj.var1,
          	"var2": obj.var2,
          	"object1": obj.object1,
          	"object2": obj.object2,
          	"object3": obj.object3,
          	"flag2": obj.flag2,
          	"flag3": obj.flag3,
          

          Cheers,

          guy038

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          • cipher-1024C
            cipher-1024
            last edited by

            I don’t know HOW I missed @dali 's plugin for this long! I have to admit whenever I saw someone doing multiline work I was extremely jealous and tempted to try the VS Code waters. @guy038, what is your CTRL-D mapped to? CTRL-D is mapped to “Duplicate Current Line” for me. When I follow your instructions, I just get duplicate lines. If I try to copy and paste, the paste is just all of the selections globbed together. I can’t seem to duplicate just the selection (like it does in the gif on github). This is what I get when I follow your instructions:

            	"var1": obj.,
            	"var1
            	"var2": obj.,
            	"var2
            	"object1": obj.,
            	"object1
            	"object2": obj.,
            	"object2
            	"object3": obj.,
            	"object3
            	"flag2": obj.,
            	"flag2
            	"flag3": obj.,
            	"flag3
            
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            • cipher-1024C
              cipher-1024
              last edited by cipher-1024

              Ohh you rascals! I went into the shortcut mapper and under the Scintilla commands tab there was an unassigned “SCI_SELECTIONDUPLICATE”. I assigned that to Ctrl + D et voila! (as Guy would say)!

              Christmas came early this year! Now I’m not the only kid on the block that can’t mulitedit! Thank you @dail and @guy038 for bringing this plugin to my attention!

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              • guy038G
                guy038
                last edited by guy038

                Hello, @cipher-1024, and All,

                Yes, as you found it out yourself, my Ctrl+D shortcut is assigned to the Scintilla function SCI_SELECTIONDUPLICATE ( and not to SCI_LINEDUPLICATE ! )

                So, I updated my previous post to add this statement to the hypotheses block !

                Cheers,

                guy038

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                • cipher-1024C
                  cipher-1024
                  last edited by

                  Thanks Guy. I must have changed the default ages ago because I don’t remember doing it. Also a big thank you again to @dail. Now I don’t have to be all like this.

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                  • bitagorasB
                    bitagoras
                    last edited by

                    For your information: The newest version of the plugin “BetterMultiSelection” is now capable to do copy and paste on multiple cursors (as I used it in the VSCode animation above).

                    There is now only the one missing important feature to make multi editing as fast as in VSCode: the ctrl+D select function. Scintilla seems to support this feature as well, but it’s not available in Notepad++ for keyboard shortcut:

                    SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT (in VSCode bound to ctrl-d)
                    SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDEACH (in VSCode bound to shift-ctrl-l)

                    What ctrl-d does:
                    It selects the next occurence of the current selection as added multiselection. You can use it to very quickly rename variables. In Notepad++ you have to use the mouse, which is much slower, or the replace function. In VSCode there is also a “skip next occurence” (ctrl-k) and “undo last selection” (ctrl-u) which makes it very versatile.

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse @bitagoras
                      last edited by Ekopalypse

                      @bitagoras said in Multi selection and multi edit:

                      SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT

                      Added this feature request.

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                      • dinkumoilD
                        dinkumoil @bitagoras
                        last edited by dinkumoil

                        @bitagoras

                        About to one year ago we had a conversation about this topic here in the forum, have a look at this thread.

                        The essentials of the discussion:

                        1. You can already use these features using a scripting plugin.

                        In the following I provide the code for the NppExec plugin.

                        Command SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT (with the help of @Ekopalypse):

                        sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS SCFIND_WHOLEWORD
                        sci_sendmsg 2690  // SCI_TARGETWHOLEDOCUMENT
                        sci_sendmsg 2688  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT
                        

                        Command SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDEACH (generously provided by @Ekopalypse):

                        sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS SCFIND_WHOLEWORD
                        sci_sendmsg 2690  // SCI_TARGETWHOLEDOCUMENT
                        
                        sci_sendmsg SCI_GETSELECTIONEMPTY
                        
                        if $(MSG_RESULT) == 1 then
                          sci_sendmsg 2688  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT
                         
                        sci_sendmsg 2689  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDEACH
                        
                        1. As these commands are not supported in Notepad++ versions older than v7.7, it is possible to emulate them using a scripting plugin. In the following I provide the Lua code (can be used in conjunction with the LuaScript plugin) to do this:

                        Command SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT (provided by @dail):

                        -- =============================================================================
                        -- Add menu entry to select next occurence of word under or next to cursor or
                        -- already selected word
                        -- =============================================================================
                        
                        npp.AddShortcut("Selection Add Next", "", function()
                          -- From SciTEBase.cxx
                          local flags = SCFIND_WHOLEWORD -- can use 0
                        
                          editor:SetTargetRange(0, editor.TextLength)
                          editor.SearchFlags = flags
                        
                          -- From Editor.cxx
                          if editor.SelectionEmpty or not editor.MultipleSelection then
                            local startWord = editor:WordStartPosition(editor.CurrentPos, true)
                            local endWord   = editor:WordEndPosition(startWord, true)
                        
                            editor:SetSelection(startWord, endWord)
                          else
                            local i = editor.MainSelection
                            local s = editor:textrange(editor.SelectionNStart[i], editor.SelectionNEnd[i])
                            local searchRanges = {{editor.SelectionNEnd[i], editor.TargetEnd}, {editor.TargetStart, editor.SelectionNStart[i]}}
                        
                            for _, range in pairs(searchRanges) do
                              editor:SetTargetRange(range[1], range[2])
                        
                              if editor:SearchInTarget(s) ~= -1 then
                                editor:AddSelection(editor.TargetStart, editor.TargetEnd)
                        
                                -- To scroll main selection in sight
                                editor:ScrollRange(editor.TargetStart, editor.TargetEnd)
                        
                                break
                              end
                            end
                          end
                        
                          -- To turn on Notepad++ multi select markers
                          editor:LineScroll(0, 1)
                          editor:LineScroll(0, -1)
                        end)
                        

                        Command SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDEACH (devolped by myself by extending above script):

                        -- =============================================================================
                        -- Add menu entry to select all occurences of word under or next to cursor or
                        -- already selected word
                        -- =============================================================================
                        
                        npp.AddShortcut("Selection Add All", "", function()
                          local flags     = SCFIND_WHOLEWORD -- can use 0
                          local startWord = -1
                          local endWord   = -1
                          local s         = ""
                        
                          editor.SearchFlags = flags
                        
                          if editor.SelectionEmpty or not editor.MultipleSelection then
                            startWord = editor:WordStartPosition(editor.CurrentPos, true)
                            endWord   = editor:WordEndPosition(startWord, true)
                        
                            editor:SetSelection(startWord, endWord)
                          else
                            local i   = editor.MainSelection
                        
                            startWord = editor.SelectionNStart[i]
                            endWord   = editor.SelectionNEnd[i]
                          end
                        
                          s = editor:textrange(startWord, endWord)
                        
                          while true do
                            editor:SetTargetRange(0, editor.TextLength)
                        
                            local i            = editor.MainSelection
                            local searchRanges = {{editor.SelectionNEnd[i], editor.TargetEnd}, {editor.TargetStart, editor.SelectionNStart[i]}}
                            local itemFound    = false
                        
                            for _, range in pairs(searchRanges) do
                              editor:SetTargetRange(range[1], range[2])
                        
                              if editor:SearchInTarget(s) ~= -1 then
                                editor:AddSelection(editor.TargetStart, editor.TargetEnd)
                                itemFound = true
                                break
                              end
                            end
                        
                            if editor.TargetStart == startWord and
                               editor.TargetEnd   == endWord   or
                               not itemFound                   then
                              break
                            end
                          end
                        
                          -- To turn on Notepad++ multi select markers
                          editor:LineScroll(0, 1)
                          editor:LineScroll(0, -1)
                        end)
                        
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                        • bitagorasB
                          bitagoras @dinkumoil
                          last edited by

                          @dinkumoil : Ok thank you, I was not aware. But I still would appreaciate if the two functions would be added to list of scintilla comands at the keyboard shortcuts. Should not be to difficult.

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse @bitagoras
                            last edited by

                            @bitagoras
                            I just have updated the FR with my test.
                            A simple keyboard binding does not work but the solution is
                            similar easy.

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                            • bitagorasB
                              bitagoras
                              last edited by

                              Here is my entire solution (copy from this Github Issue) with NppExec which gives Notepad++ all the multi editing functionality from VSCode. The only difference is that there are two different shortcuts each for addNext and for skip.

                              addNext (Ctrl-D):

                              NPP_CONSOLE 0
                              sci_sendmsg 2690  // SCI_TARGETWHOLEDOCUMENT
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS 0
                              sci_sendmsg 2688  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT
                              

                              multiSelect_D

                              addNextWholeWord (Shift-Ctrl-D):

                              NPP_CONSOLE 0
                              sci_sendmsg 2690  // SCI_TARGETWHOLEDOCUMENT
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS SCFIND_WHOLEWORD
                              sci_sendmsg 2688  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT
                              

                              multiSelect_DW

                              addEach (Shift-Ctrl-L):

                              NPP_CONSOLE 0
                              sci_sendmsg 2690  // SCI_TARGETWHOLEDOCUMENT
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_GETSELECTIONEMPTY
                              if $(MSG_RESULT) == 1 then
                                sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS SCFIND_WHOLEWORD
                              else
                                sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS 0
                              endif
                              sci_sendmsg 2689  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDEACH
                              sci_sendmsg 2689  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDEACH
                              

                              multiSelect_EACH

                              undoAddNext (Ctrl-U):

                              NPP_CONSOLE 0
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_GETSELECTIONS
                              set n ~ $(MSG_RESULT) - 1
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_DROPSELECTIONN $(n)
                              

                              multiSelect_DU

                              skip (Alt-Ctrl-D):

                              NPP_CONSOLE 0
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS SCFIND_NONE
                              sci_sendmsg 2688  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_GETSELECTIONS
                              set n ~ $(MSG_RESULT) - 2
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_DROPSELECTIONN $(n)
                              

                              multiSelect_DS

                              skipWholeWord (Alt-Shift-Ctrl-D):

                              NPP_CONSOLE 0
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_SETSEARCHFLAGS SCFIND_NONE
                              sci_sendmsg 2688  // SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_GETSELECTIONS
                              set n ~ $(MSG_RESULT) - 2
                              sci_sendmsg SCI_DROPSELECTIONN $(n)
                              
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                              • michaelfernandez98M
                                michaelfernandez98
                                last edited by

                                Hello
                                I’m new to this but I’m interested in having the functionality to select similar strings in a document and be able to do multiple editing
                                how can i add this functionality to notepad ++?

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                                • Alan KilbornA
                                  Alan Kilborn @michaelfernandez98
                                  last edited by

                                  @michaelfernandez98

                                  Perhaps the simplest way would be to add the NppExec plugin to your Notepad++ and used the scripts by @bitagoras directly above?

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                                  • michaelfernandez98M
                                    michaelfernandez98
                                    last edited by

                                    yes i was watching
                                    I already installed the NppExec script to the notepad++
                                    but now the problem is how do I add the scripts by @bitagoras to the notepad ++?

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                                    • Alan KilbornA
                                      Alan Kilborn @michaelfernandez98
                                      last edited by

                                      @michaelfernandez98

                                      It feels a bit like spoon-feeding, but…

                                      • Select Plugins from the N++ menus
                                      • Select NppExec
                                      • Select Execute (default key assignment is F6)
                                      • Paste in ONE of the short “scripts” above in the Execute… box that appears
                                      • Optionally (but recommended) test run it by pressing the OK button
                                      • Press F6 again; “script” from before was retained and shows in the box
                                      • Press Save… , give it a name (suggested above the “scripts” above), press OK
                                      • Assign a keycombo (again; suggested ones are above the “scripts” above)
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                                      • PeterJonesP
                                        PeterJones @michaelfernandez98
                                        last edited by PeterJones

                                        @michaelfernandez98 said:

                                        but now the problem is how do I add the scripts by @bitagoras to the notepad ++?

                                        @Alan-Kilborn replied:

                                        …
                                        Assign a keycombo (again; suggested ones are above the “scripts” above)

                                        If saving and naming a script wasn’t obvious, then assigning a keycombo is going to be less intuitive. Just saying. ;-)

                                        @michaelfernandez98,
                                        Once you have one or more scripts named and saved as Alan described, then go to Plugins > NppExec > Advanced Options. In the lower left, use the Associated Script pulldown to select the script; click Add/Modify button to add it to the list of Menu Items in the upper left; note whether or not ☑ Place in the Macros Submenu is enabled (you will need this later). Repeat as necessary for all of the above scripts. When you hit OK to apply those changes, a popup will tell you that you should restart Notepad++: save any open files, then restart Notepad++.

                                        After the restart, then either the Macros menu (if the checkbox was enabled) or the Plugins > NppExec submenu (if the checkbox was disabled) will list your new NppExec scripts.

                                        To assign a keycombo to each, go to Macros > Modify Shortcut/Delete Macro (or, equivalently, Settings > Shortcut Mapper), and go to the Plugin Commands tab. Filter by NppExec and scroll down until you see the new script names. Click on the script you want a keycombo for, hit Modify, and pick the appropriate combination of Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and the selected key. Repeat the Modify procedure for all the scripts that you want a keycombo for.

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                                        • Alan KilbornA
                                          Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                                          last edited by

                                          @PeterJones

                                          Thanks for filling in those details Peter!
                                          As I was walking thru the steps on my setup, I didn’t do that part, so I’d forgotten that it was maybe not the most obvious thing.

                                          Is there a way to delete scripts that just isn’t obvious to me at the moment?
                                          For example, during my experimentation I named my script “junk”.
                                          Now I want to get rid of it, but don’t see a way to in the NppExec UI.
                                          Or do I have to resort to hand-editing the config file for the plugin?

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                                          • PeterJonesP
                                            PeterJones
                                            last edited by

                                            @Alan-Kilborn said in Multi selection and multi edit:

                                            Now I want to get rid of it, but don’t see a way to in the NppExec UI.

                                            No obvious way, that’s for sure.

                                            The … > Advanced Options > Delete button removes it from the menu, but not from the saved scripts.

                                            Oh, right, there it is. F6, select junk, counter-intuitively hit Save…, then click the Delete button.

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