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    • gstaviG
      gstavi
      last edited by

      Are you using NP++ over wine/Linux by any chance?
      I noted the same thing on wine over gnome-shell. Didn’t see that on Windows.
      I also have some other keyboard issues on wine. Most annoying is that going to menu and pressing esc adds an ‘esc’ symbol to the text.
      I doubt it can be fixed from NP++ side but maybe someone else will have an idea.

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      • guy038G
        guy038
        last edited by

        Hello, Rick and gstavi,

        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

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        • gstaviG
          gstavi
          last edited by

          The problem I described is not related to shortcuts (or Notepad++). It is related to wine.
          Running regular Notepad with ‘wine notepad’ ends with same results. ctrl-+ echos ‘+’ to document.
          I changed the zoom shortcuts to ctrl-- and ctrl-= to avoid it.

          Wine is great but not perfect.

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          • Claudia FrankC
            Claudia Frank @gstavi
            last edited by Claudia Frank

            @gstavi

            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

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            • Scott SumnerS
              Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
              last edited by

              @Claudia-Frank

              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…

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              • gstaviG
                gstavi
                last edited by

                Linux has so many flavors and there are so much variety in the background infrastructure that every machine may act differently.
                At work, under ubuntu 14.04 with gnome-shell (and whoever knows what else) I see the behavior I described and also some GUI artifacts like shrunken title bars for windows.
                At home under Linux Mint I don’t see the GUI artifacts. Don’t remember if the keyboard issues are there.

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                • Claudia FrankC
                  Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
                  last edited by

                  @Scott-Sumner

                  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

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                  • Scott SumnerS
                    Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
                    last edited by

                    @Claudia-Frank

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

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                    • Scott SumnerS
                      Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
                      last edited by

                      @Claudia-Frank

                      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:

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                      • Claudia FrankC
                        Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
                        last edited by

                        Hi Scott,

                        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

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                        • Scott SumnerS
                          Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
                          last edited by

                          @Claudia-Frank

                          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”).

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                          • Claudia FrankC
                            Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
                            last edited by

                            @Scott-Sumner

                            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

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                            • Scott SumnerS
                              Scott Sumner
                              last edited by

                              Just noting that a similar thing is discussed in this thread as well:
                              https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11233/disable-ascii-control-characters-shortcuts

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