and that’s the reason why I don’t have it. De-assigning the shortcut and et voila
I do have the same BS (no, not for Bull…) :-)

Cheers
Claudia

I have no shortcut defined for SCI_DELWORDLEFT.
Additionally, I have no shortcut for the Ctrl+Backspace combination (tested by setting one for a command that has none, and saw “no conflicts” result).
Using the script as it was provided (thus “callbackSync”).

ahh - one of my wanted to test but forgot about it totally.

Hmm, don’t have it on my side but thx for enhancing anyway. :-)
Normal config defines ctrl+backspace as delete word left.
Do you use sync or async callback? Could it be that backup functionality
is jumping in? Another py script running in parallel?

Cheers
Claudia

I just noticed when I accidentally typed ctrl+backspace that a “funny character” was inserted into my document. After a little investigation I changed the relevant line in the script above to:

if (c < 32 and c not in [9,10,13]) or c == 0x7F:

That short script seems to solve my fat-finger issues; seems so obvious now… Thank you.

after spent a couple of minutes thinking about it, I don’t see
a built-in way or using a scripting plugin to achieve this.
Another approach might be to register a charadded callback function
and check if char is < 32. E.g.

def CHARADDED(args):
    c = args['ch']
    if c < 32 and c not in [9,10,13]:
        editor.deleteBack()
    
editor.callbackSync(CHARADDED,[SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.CHARADDED])

Or hooking (maybe it isn’t required but getting handle and search controls)
npp might be working as well, something like
first set all key combination to sci_null and then get what is configured as editor shortcut
from npp and set it again.
First question would be, how to handle shortcut map changes during runtime.
Also, not sure how easy this can be done but I will give it a try when back from work.

Cheers
Claudia

Occasionally I fat-finger something and end up with a control character of some sort in my text. For example, I remember recently getting “CAN” or “DC1” or “ETB” in white surrounded by a black border when I did this. Is there a way to assign all non-normal (define normal as something on a key that actually appears the same way when typed) and non-shortcutmapper-mapped keys to SCI_NULL? This would stop the fat-finger mistakes.

Clearly one can do it as Claudia has, but that sort of becomes a maintenance nightmare to do each keycombo individually…

actually I don’t see this behavior with my linux installation.
What I do have is an ESC when pressing escape and shift together,
therefore I disabled all those asccii control chars using python script and startup.py
file.

editor.assignCmdKey(ord('E') + (KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('R') + (KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('Y') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('W') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('O') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('A') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('D') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('G') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('H') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('Z') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('X') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('C') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('V') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('B') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('N') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(ord('6') + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(189 + (KEYMOD.SHIFT + KEYMOD.CTRL << 16),2172)
editor.assignCmdKey(7 + (KEYMOD.SHIFT << 16),2172)

Maybe this can be useful for you as well.

Btw, 2172 is SCI_NULL!

Cheers
Claudia

Wine is great but not perfect.

I’m not sure that this N++ behaviour is specially related to the use of Wine. As, unfortunately, this happens, also, on a classical Windows configuration :-((

• Seemingly, only Scintilla commands ( SCI_... ) can have two different shortcuts. I, also, tried to add a third shortcut to the CTRL + V command. Unfortunately, as soon as you re-start N++, the Scintilla CTRL + V command has, again, its two default shortcuts :-(( . But, of course, you may, for instance, replace the default SHIFT + INSERT shortcut by your own shortcut. It works fine !

• By default, Notepad++ uses the Numeric keyboard, for shortcuts, in three commands, ONLY, relative to the zoom feature :

  • CTRL + + ( SCI_ZOOMIN )

  • CTRL + - ( SCI_ZOOMOUT )

  • CTRL + / ( SCI_SETZOOM )

After some tests, I realized that using the numeric keys, only, OR with the SHIFT key, for shortcuts, does NOT work ! In addition, it’s better not to use, too, the usual Windows ALT + Numeric digit key, which allows to insert any character, from its numeric ANSI or OEM code !

So, the remaining combinations, really available for shortcuts, relative to the numeric keypad, should be, finally :

CTRL                +  Key
CTRL + SHIFT        +  Key
CTRL + ALT          +  Key
ALT + SHIFT         +  Key
CTRL + ALT + SHIFT  +  Key

Best Regards,

guy038