Is there a way to copy and paste onto multiple lines without displacing text?

[Paul Tinkle]

So I think it’s best just to provide an example cause it’s hard to explain
so Imagine I have
1
2
3
4
and I need to copy four items one on each line
Is there a way to do so without it becoming
1 item
item
item
item
2
3
4?
and rather
1item
2item
3item
4item?

[Scott Sumner]

I’m really uncertain as to what you’re asking about, but…as long as your paste-point is in the same column in the multiple lines (like it is in your example above), all you have to do is obtain a “column caret” and do the paste.

For example, put the caret to the right of the “1” in your example. Press Shift+Alt+DownArrow three times (this will give you a column-caret on the four lines after the numbers. Then…paste. Whatever is in the clipboard (which is hopefully without line-endings) will appear on each line after the number that is already there.

If I’m off-base about what you’re asking for, I’m sorry, and could you please clarify?

[Paul Tinkle]

Alright I’ll try and clarify
so I have two documents, I’ll show some of whats on them
the first one is
1|
2|
3|
and so on
the other one is
Long Island
Brooklyn
Manhatten
Now I want to copy the three of those and paste it so that only one goes on each line so that it’s
1|long island
2|brooklyn
3| Manhatten
instead of
1|long Island
brooklyn
Manhatten
2|
3|

[Scott Sumner]

Ah, okay…in your first posting all the things to paste in were the same (“item”). Since they are actually different, copy them as a column block from their source (hopefully also Notepad++) using Shift+Alt+arrows to define the column block, and invoke copy. Then, at the intended destination, on the first line, invoke a paste.