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    Kaley Goode
    last edited by Sep 6, 2017, 12:10 PM

    Notepad++ on MS Windows:
    When no text is selected, pressing Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X does nothing…
    What a waste :-(

    After nearly a hundred years of using MS Visual Studio I’m used to copying and cutting whole lines with these shortcuts… and I rearrange lines a lot…
    Just this hole in Notepad++ functionality has prevented me ever buying into it :-/
    Just thought you should know…

    Would it hurt to fill that hole?

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      NippurDeLagash
      last edited by NippurDeLagash Sep 6, 2017, 1:12 PM Sep 6, 2017, 1:11 PM

      To rearrange lines, you may try moving them instead of using Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V. Just position the cursor on the line you want to move, and then press either Ctrl-shift-up or Ctrl-shift-down.

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        Udo Fuerhoff
        last edited by Sep 7, 2017, 5:49 AM

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        … When no text is selected …
        … MS Visual Studio I’m used to copying and cutting whole lines with these shortcuts …
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        This behavior is a “option”! Lowest commonly behavior are “Ctrl-c” & “Ctrl-x” do pure copying/cutting of selectet objects!

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          Kaley Goode @Udo Fuerhoff
          last edited by Kaley Goode Sep 7, 2017, 2:48 PM Sep 7, 2017, 2:46 PM

          @Udo-Fuerhoff said:

          This behavior is a “option”! Lowest commonly behavior are “Ctrl-c” & “Ctrl-x” do pure copying/cutting of selectet objects!

          @Udo-Fuerhoff: Sorry for upsetting you with my ridiculous suggestion.
          I don’t understand what’s unreasonable when Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X currently do nothing.
          I’d be perfectly happy for it to be an option in Notepad++ too.

          @NippurDeLagash: I wasn’t clear: I rearrange lines between editors: so I cut or copy a line from one editor and paste to another.

          Ctrl-X in one, Ctrl-V in the other. A lot. It’s great. Easy. Until I try notepad++. Then it isn’t.
          Ctrl-L is a long way when your right hand is on the mouse.
          Ctrl-X then becomes a quick way to delete lines too.

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            Scott Sumner @Kaley Goode
            last edited by Sep 7, 2017, 3:13 PM

            @Kaley-Goode

            This has been much discussed over a long period of time; here are some references:

            https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/3623
            https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/18
            https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13732/feature-smart-cut-copy-current-line-when-there-is-no-selection
            https://stackoverflow.com/questions/619754/how-to-mimic-visual-studios-ctrl-x-ctrl-v-functionality-in-notepad
            https://bitbucket.org/zastrowm/notepad-visualstudiolinecopy

            I’m not really one for thinking that Notepad++ should be a clone of Visual Studio (shudder!), but I do agree that this specific thing makes a great deal of sense–why not have a keystroke that would otherwise do nothing…do something useful and sensible? However, since we haven’t seen it yet (natively) in Notepad++, I’ve got to question whether it will ever be done. Thus, I’d encourage those interested in having the functionality pursue one of the alternative methods (see links above) for achieving it. I did…and then I stopped thinking about it. :-D

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              NippurDeLagash @Udo Fuerhoff
              last edited by NippurDeLagash Sep 7, 2017, 5:04 PM Sep 7, 2017, 5:03 PM

              @Udo-Fuerhoff

              I did read @Kaley-Goode’s message, as was fully aware about the need of no text is selected. That’s why I answered: Just position the cursor, i.e. place the cursor over the line, exactly the same way you do under Visual Studio. There is no need to select anything.

              And yes, I assumed (wrongly) that the lines were all in the same file.

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                Gogo Neatza
                last edited by Sep 8, 2017, 12:39 PM

                @Kaley Goode
                There is a plugin called “Visual Studio Line Copy” :
                “Adds two commands to Notepad++ CopyAllowLine and CutAllowLine, which adds Visual Studio style copy/cutting to Notepad++.”

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                  Kaley Goode @NippurDeLagash
                  last edited by Sep 11, 2017, 11:07 AM

                  @Scott-Sumner Thank you for your extensive answer.
                  I clearly have to do lots of reading before being able to do something one would expect to be intuitive!

                  @NippurDeLagash: “just position the cursor” is the very thing I shouldn’t have to do. It’s already on the line!

                  @Gogo-Neatza The plug-in manager infinitely insisted it needed updating.
                  Once I ignored it, a couple of attempts at installing this plug-in finally worked.
                  It appears to add two menu entries… I assumed they’d be checked entries enabling the behaviour but they’re the commands…

                  So then I read @Scott-Sumner’s links which all mention the plug-in too and finally a dozen steps that I need to follow to finally get this basic text editor functionality:
                  https://bitbucket.org/zastrowm/notepad-visualstudiolinecopy
                  So now I can join the throng of people who can get on with their work sensibly.

                  I do, however, remain in disbelief that a user should have to go to the lengths I have to simply cut and copy lines efficiently! I’ve been ignoring Notepad++ since 2004 because of this shortfall (and our fixed-width fonts not being fixed width), which leads me to ask the community again:

                  Would it hurt to fill that hole?

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