Yes, your wider screenshot shows that you started a comment before the <Macro name="aa" and never closed it. Close your comment, and save and restart, and things should work.

edit: sorry, I was typing my reply when you posted your “I found my mistake” message

No it’s not. I saved, reloaded and it doesn’t work. N++ 8.5.6x32

The macro I showed works. Your macro is not working because you messed up the XML file, so now no macros will work.

The syntax highlighting in your screenshot clearly indicates that the starting line of your macro – which is required for it to work – is commented out.

(The green colored text means “comment”)

If you were showing the screenshot of the whole line, rather than cutting off the left side of the document, I could have probably even told you the exact location where you messed it up. As it is, I can tell you with confidence that somewhere between line 7 and line 11, you do not properly close the comment that line 7 is a part of. (Or maybe there are multiple comments between 7 and 11. Or maybe even 6-7 shouldn’t be commented; I’m not sure on that.)

Now your Macro > PasteEnter will work again

No it’s not. I saved, reloaded and it doesn’t work. N++ 8.5.6x32

So how does one go about preventing this?

Don’t edit your post after initially posting. ;-)

If you do, always check that everything renders as expected in the PREVIEW window and after hitting SUBMIT

Is there a FAQ for this?

Yes. It’s in the Entities section of Formatting Forum Posts

stupid forum software converts &-encoded sequences

So how does one go about preventing this? Is there a FAQ for this?

I cut and pasted your two code snippets twice, and can find no difference between them other than the second one ends with four backquotes instead of three.

Sorry, I used the “edit” feature in the forum to add shortcuts.xml a couple times, but the stupid forum software converts &-encoded sequences into their raw results, even when they are in code blocks which are supposed to be protected against such edits.

I have fixed it in my post above.

Your macro in shortcuts.xml used to be

Now that same section in shortcuts.xml needs to be […]

I cut, pasted, and compared your two code snippets twice, and can find no difference between them other than the second one ends with four backquotes instead of three.

It just replaces these values & #x0D; & #x0A;

Yes, that’s what the instructions are supposed to do.

Shouldn’t it be the same?

The same as what? That makes no sense.

But since I cannot seem to teach you how to do this, I will spoon-feed you the answer.

Your macro in shortcuts.xml used to be

<Macro name="PasteEnter" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
    <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /><!-- paste -->
    <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="&#x000D;&#x000A;" /><!-- type CRLF -->
</Macro>

Now that same section in shortcuts.xml needs to be

<Macro name="PasteEnter" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
    <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /><!-- paste -->
    <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="&#x0D;&#x0A;" /><!-- type CRLF -->
</Macro>

Then save, exit Notepad++, and reload. Now your Macro > PasteEnter will work again.

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edit: fixed the forum’s corruption of my intended post

It didn’t work out for me, that’s why I’m asking for help.

You didn’t actually read and understand the FAQ, or follow its instructions, did you?

I think it’s about, but, what to replace it with, I do not know

That’s because you didn’t read the FAQ.

Yep. The FAQ explains how to fix that underlined section that you showed from shortcuts.xml:

So if you have in your macro, you need to run the search-and-replacements listed in the screenshot of the FAQ that I just showed, and then save the shortcuts.xml file, then restart Notepad++. After that, it will work.

In new versions this method does not work, because the developers changed the code in Shortcuts,

There’s an entire FAQ entry that explains exactly what you need to change to make a macro recorded in an old version to work with v8.5.3. and newer. Follow those instructions, and it will work for you.

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Sorry, your screenshots did not embed properly, so I cannot see what you showed.

The procedure I described reliably works for me. So maybe you did something wrong or you missed a step.

Please respond to the following questions/requests to help us help you:

1. Please share those screenshots again – make sure they show up in the “preview” window in the forum – that will help us understand what you have and what you don’t have
2. Please go to the ? menu and Debug Info entry, and copy/paste that information into your reply. This will tell us what version you are using and what directories we should expect files to be in
3. Did you create the macro as described in the 6 steps in my first message? Please show us a screenshot of the Macro menu to show that PasteEnter macro was created and saved
4. Did you correctly edit the Context Menu (including restarting Notepad++)?

Hopefully, we can help you figure out which step went wrong.

But I need it without additional taps, such as Macros or hot keys. I need to configure it once and then so that at each insert from the buffer the cursor jumps to the next line without using additional clicks.

There are no additional clicks. There are different clicks. Instead of using Ctrl+V for paste, use whatever shortcut you assign to that macro. It’s really simple, and the same number of keystrokes.

In fact, if you always want paste to be paste+enter, you can use shortcut mapper to remove Ctrl+V from normal Paste, and instead assign Ctrl+V to the PasetEnter macro

Also, if you usually use RightClick > Paste to access the paste function from the context menu, you can also edit the context menu config to give you the option of RightClick > PasteEnter instead, an put it right next to the paste:

1. Use Settings > Edit Popup ContextMenu
2. Add <Item MenuEntryName="Macro" MenuItemName="PasteEnter"/> immediately after the <Item MenuEntryName="Edit" MenuItemName="Paste"/> line
3. save, exit, and reload Notepad++
4. Now your RightClick menu will show PasteEnter right after Paste. You can use RClick > PasteEnter anytime you would have used RClick > Paste, with exactly the same amount of effort from now on.

So, to sum up:

1. if you assign a keyboard shortcut to PasteEnter macro, you can use that anytime you would have used Ctrl+V, with exactly the same number of clicks as a normal Ctrl+V.
2. if you assign the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut to PasteEnter macro, you can use that every time you paste with Ctrl+V, because it will be using that macro instead of the normal just-paste functionality
3. if you add the PasteEnter macro to the right click context menu, you can use that entry in the right click context menu exactly as easily as you can use the normal paste from the right click menu.

There are many ways to make the Paste+Enter functionality identically-easy to use as the builtin paste functionality. I have shown three right here – including one that replaces Ctrl+V functionality with the new Paste+Enter with the same keystroke. There is no difference in difficulty of long-term use between using PasteEnter macro and using normal Paste – it can be done in the same number of keystrokes (1) or in the same right-click context menu; it’s exactly the same difficulty to use.

But your macros is not working ))

Apparently there was confusion (probably a language thing, still), because with the screenshots you showed, you are not using the macro. The macro doesn’t change the normal paste behavior – whether you use Edit > Paste, RightClick > Paste, or Ctrl+V. The macro is a separate command – in the Macro menu – which does both a paste and an enter.

I will use pictures, in case my words don’t translate well for you.

You have to use the macro to get the paste-then-enter behavior.

If you want a keyboard shortcut, like maybe Ctrl+Shift+V, to be used for this paste+enter, you can use Macros > Modify Shortcut / Delete Macro

Then (1) select PasteEnter, (2) Modify, (3) select keys – I checked Ctrl and Shift, and selected the V, for Ctrl+Shift+V as the keyboard shortcut, (4) OK, (5) CLOSE.

After this, Ctrl+Shift+V (or whatever key sequence you choose) will run Macro > PasteEnter.

But without running the PasteEnter macro, you cannot expect the new behavior.

I hope this makes it clear.