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    James Burke
    last edited by Mar 27, 2019, 4:39 AM

    Awesome advice here, but it goes by too fast and the menu selections are in Russian. I was afraid this would happen. My head is spinning!

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      James Burke @Meta Chuh
      last edited by James Burke Mar 27, 2019, 6:41 AM Mar 27, 2019, 6:39 AM

      Meta Chuh,yes, the shortcuts.xml I’m looking at is in %AppData%\Notepad++, but it’s impervious to changes. I can edit it, but the changes don’t appear in NPP.

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        Meta Chuh moderator @James Burke
        last edited by Meta Chuh Mar 27, 2019, 9:12 AM Mar 27, 2019, 9:11 AM

        @James-Burke

        Awesome advice here, but it goes by too fast and the menu selections are in Russian.

        i’m sorry about that, @Alan-Kilborn has already tried to put a stop to this “over-posting” towards @andrecool-68.
        please try to only focus on posts relevant to you and skip all others.

        Meta Chuh,yes, the shortcuts.xml I’m looking at is in %AppData%\Notepad++, but it’s impervious to changes. I can edit it, but the changes don’t appear in NPP.

        please provide us with your debug information, by going to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info… > copy debug info into clipboard, and pasting it here.

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          andrecool-68 @James Burke
          last edited by Mar 27, 2019, 11:40 AM

          @James-Burke said:

          Awesome advice here, but it goes by too fast and the menu selections are in Russian. I was afraid this would happen. My head is spinning!

          What don’t you understand in those videos?

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            andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
            last edited by Mar 27, 2019, 11:44 AM

            @Meta-Chuh said:

            i’m sorry about that, @Alan-Kilborn has already tried to put a stop to this “over-posting” towards @andrecool-68.

            Hi, everybody…I’m going to Antarctica.)))

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              Alan Kilborn
              last edited by Mar 27, 2019, 12:12 PM

              So the first video shows a user using a program called Everything , which isn’t part of Notepad++ and may not be something people have access to or want to use. Normally, showing other programs to make a point is OK, but there needs to be some explanation along with it. Also, they should be shown in English.

              The second video (with more non-English) shows what appears to be the folder where Notepad++ lives, but with some extra VBS that the user is interacting with. Again, no explanation, so a reader is left thinking that they should find these VBS and run them!

              Ach!

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                James Burke @Meta Chuh
                last edited by Mar 28, 2019, 5:41 AM

                @Meta-Chuh said:

                @James-Burke
                please provide us with your debug information, by going to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info… > copy debug info into clipboard, and pasting it here.

                Notepad++ v7.5.9 (32-bit)
                Build time : Oct 14 2018 - 15:02:52
                Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                Admin mode : OFF
                Local Conf mode : OFF
                OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
                Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll ComparePlugin.dll NppFTP.dll PluginManager.dll
                NppFTP.dll PluginManager.dll

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                  Terry R
                  last edited by Mar 28, 2019, 6:14 AM

                  @James-Burke said:

                  I’m trying to edit shortcuts.xml

                  Two thoughts:

                  1. Make sure that if you are editing this file with Notepad++ (NPP), it is the ONLY step you do in a NPP session. That is because upon closing, NPP can update the file itself if anything during the current session dictates updating information within that, or other configuration files.

                  2. A method of determining which of the shortcuts.xml files is being used is to create a small macro. I suggest using the one @guy038 produced, read:
                    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17355/select-word/4
                    Close NPP immediately after saving that macro, then use Windows Explorer to find (advanced search) ALL files on your PC with a modified date being the day you do this. It will take time, but that’s a sure method of finding the file used by your NPP installation.

                  Terry

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                    Meta Chuh moderator @James Burke
                    last edited by Meta Chuh Mar 28, 2019, 7:10 AM Mar 28, 2019, 6:57 AM

                    @James-Burke

                    according to your debug info, your shortcuts.xml should be located at %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml.

                    if you say “it’s impervious to changes”, do you mean, that once you close notepad++ and reopen it again, your changes disappear from your shortcuts.xml ?

                    if yes, please close notepad++ and edit %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml using another editor, e.g. the windows internal notepad.exe editor, then save it, and reopen notepad++.

                    note: there might be something else strange about your installation, because the plugins NppFTP.dll and PluginManager.dll are listed twice in your debug info, which should never happen.
                    if this is the case, and it did not just happen while pasting it here, i can not exclude that we will have to make a clean, new notepad++ install in order to get it running as expected.
                    we will give you a detailed step by step guide for that, as soon as we run out of options, and you decide, that a fresh, guided install would be your preferred choice.

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                      James Burke @Terry R
                      last edited by Mar 30, 2019, 4:32 AM

                      @Terry-R said:

                      @James-Burke said:

                      I’m trying to edit shortcuts.xml

                      Two thoughts:

                      1. Make sure that if you are editing this file with Notepad++ (NPP), it is the ONLY step you do in a NPP session. That is because upon closing, NPP can update the file itself if anything during the current session dictates updating information within that, or other configuration files.
                        Terry

                      Yes, your hints, plus Meta Chuh’s, did the trick. I could never have figured it out on my own. I could find all the bits & pieces, but it never would have occurred to me to edit the shortcuts file as you described. This is how my shortcuts.xml file looks now:
                      <NotepadPlus>
                      <InternalCommands />
                      <Macros>
                      <Macro name=“Trim Trailing and save” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“83”>
                      <Action type=“2” message=“0” wParam=“42024” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
                      <Action type=“2” message=“0” wParam=“41006” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
                      </Macro>
                      </Macros>
                      <UserDefinedCommands>
                      <Command name=“Launch in Firefox” Ctrl=“yes” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“88”>firefox “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”</Command>
                      <Command name=“Launch in IE” Ctrl=“yes” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“73”>iexplore “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”</Command>
                      <Command name=“Launch in Chrome” Ctrl=“yes” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“67”>chrome “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”</Command>
                      <Command name=“Launch in Safari” Ctrl=“yes” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“98”>safari “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”</Command>
                      <Command name=“Launch in Yandex” Ctrl=“yes” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“98”>yandex “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”</Command>
                      <Command name=“Get php help” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“112”>http://www.php.net/ $(CURRENT_WORD) </Command>
                      <Command name=“Google Search” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“113”>http://www.google.com/search?q=$(CURRENT_WORD) </Command>
                      <Command name=“Wikipedia Search” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“114”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=$(CURRENT_WORD) </Command>
                      <Command name=“Open file” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“116”>$(NPP_DIRECTORY)\notepad++.exe $(CURRENT_WORD)</Command>
                      <Command name=“Open in another instance” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“117”>$(NPP_DIRECTORY)\notepad++.exe $(CURRENT_WORD) -nosession -multiInst</Command>
                      <Command name=“Open containing folder” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“no” Shift=“no” Key=“0”>explorer $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)</Command>
                      <Command name=“Open current dir cmd” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“no” Shift=“no” Key=“0”>cmd /K cd $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)</Command>
                      <Command name=“Send via Outlook” Ctrl=“yes” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“79”>outlook /a “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”</Command>
                      </UserDefinedCommands>
                      <PluginCommands />
                      <ScintillaKeys />
                      </NotepadPlus>

                      This is a most useful setup for website editing since I can quickly see how my html looks in different browsers. The new way (without the “Run” choice inside NPP) is much too slow and clunky. Thanks to both of you for your help.

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                        Meta Chuh moderator @James Burke
                        last edited by Mar 30, 2019, 10:29 AM

                        thank you for sharing your shortcuts.xml @James-Burke
                        i’m glad you got it working, and my apologies that it consumed more of your time than it should.

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