Community
    • Login

    Shortcut to replace all in replace dialog no longer works

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Help wanted · · · – – – · · ·
    5 Posts 3 Posters 4.9k Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • Darius DamalakasD
      Darius Damalakas
      last edited by Darius Damalakas

      Hi,

      I am using often “alt + a” shortcut to trigger “replace all” functionality in the replace dialog (opened by ctrl + h).
      Now instead of replacing, it invokes “find all” functionality. Has anyone noticed this as well? It is annoying, it has worked so well before.

      Edit:
      Just to be clear - the replace functionality works fine if I click the button with mouse. It’s the shortcut that is not working.

      Npp version 7.2.1

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Andy BayleyA
        Andy Bayley
        last edited by

        Mine is the same - on v.7.2.1.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • Scott SumnerS
          Scott Sumner
          last edited by

          You can change that “shortcut” but it is not done via the normal “Shortcut Mapper”; see this posting for how: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11041/new-alt-shortcuts-in-the-find-dialog-for-default-english-language

          That link discusses the English language, but I believe the general idea works with any language you might happen to use.

          Darius DamalakasD 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • Darius DamalakasD
            Darius Damalakas @Scott Sumner
            last edited by

            @Scott-Sumner Thanks, will try this.

            Its unfortunate that i have to resort to such magic. The “Replace All” button has capital “A” underlined, and it is a standard in windows that “alt + letter” would trigger this. Will post an update after i’ve tried this.

            Scott SumnerS 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • Scott SumnerS
              Scott Sumner @Darius Damalakas
              last edited by

              @Darius-Damalakas

              It appears that between 7.2 and 7.2.1 the “FInd All In Current Document” was assigned Alt+A as a keyboard- accelerator. This appears to be a duplicate assignment, since as you point out, the “Replace All” button has the “A” underlined. When you press Alt+A, the software finds the “Find All in Curr Doc” binding first and invokes that. The technique I linked to earlier should allow you to fix this.

              Regarding “resort(ing) to such magic…”, I guess the positive takeaway is that you can fix such things yourself without waiting on someone else to do it. And for some people that stretch Notepad++ to its utter limits, the “magic” is sometimes indispensable. :-)

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • First post
                Last post
              The Community of users of the Notepad++ text editor.
              Powered by NodeBB | Contributors