Thank you so much for your appreciation. No, I’m not a paid staff member, at all ! Just a volunteer, who loves N++ and be happy to help people when I guess a possible solution ;-))

And, anyway, I am confined at home, in France, like everywhere else, in the world. So, presently, I have plenty of time to think about some problems !

Cheers,

guy038

Your macros work perfectly for the desired functionality I was trying to achieve. I suspected that Macros would be an interesting way to attack this problem. But I had such little personal experience with them, I got overwhelmed trying to research them and I gave up too quick.

But lucky for me, a genius responded to my call for help and solved my question like a warm knife through butter. Of course that genius is none other than you!

Are you a paid staff member around here? I find it astonishing that someone would be that courteous and helpful just on a volunteer basis.

Also, thank you to Prahlad-Makwana4145 and Alan Kilborn for also helping.

@carverof-canyons, you said :

I was hoping to ask one last final question if you’d let me. When I use the triple click method or the scintilla command SCI_LINECOPY to select an entire line of text, the cursor always goes immediately to the far left of the next line below it. So when I copy a line in this manner, upon pasting it, I always end up getting an extra blank line below whatever I am pasting. Is there anyway to stop notepad++ from always pasting in a blank line below whatever information I copied from a triple click on the line above?

I think that you could easily get this behaviour, by adding, for instance, the 3 macro definitions, below, in your active shortcuts.xml file :

        <Macro name="Cut        Current Line w/o EOL" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="88">           <!--  Alt + Shift + X  -->
            <Action type="0" message="2312" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Go Very Beginning   SCI_HOME          (51) -->
            <Action type="0" message="2315" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Select to Very End  SCI_LINEENDEXTEND (68) -->

            <Action type="0" message="2177" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Ctrl + X            SCI_CUT           (01) -->
        </Macro>

        <Macro name="Copy     Current Line w/o EOL" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="67">             <!--  Alt + Shift + C  -->
            <Action type="0" message="2312" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Go Very Beginning   SCI_HOME          (51) -->
            <Action type="0" message="2315" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Select to Very End  SCI_LINEENDEXTEND (68) -->

            <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Ctrl + C            SCI_COPY          (02) -->
            <Action type="0" message="2306" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Right Arrow         SCI_CHARRIGHT     (36) -->
        </Macro>

        <Macro name="Replace Current line by Clipboard" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="86">         <!--  Alt + Shift + V  -->
            <Action type="0" message="2312" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Go Very Beginning   SCI_HOME          (51) -->
            <Action type="0" message="2315" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Select to Very End  SCI_LINEENDEXTEND (68) -->

            <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Ctrl + V            SCI_PASTE         (03) -->
        </Macro>

Note that the Scintilla messages to get the very beginning of current line SCI_HOME ( 2312 ) and, then, extend selection to the very end of current line SCI_LINEENDEXTEND ( 2315 ) are not the default ones, used within N++ !

Indeed, the default Home operation is controlled by the SCI_VCHOMEWRAP message and the default Shift + End operation by the SCI_LINEENDWRAPEXTEND message

However, the 2312 and 2315 Scintilla messages, used in the 3 macros, are preferred, because, on their own, they work properly, whatever :

• the present cursor location, in current line

• the current line is wrapped, or not ( View > Word wrap )

• the current line is split on several lines, preceded, or not, by any indentation

• the current line begins, or not, by some blank characters

• the EOL characters of current line ( \r\n, \n or \r )

• the current line is not terminated by any EOL characters ( case of the very last line of the file )

• the Line Wrap type, ( Settings > Preferences...> Editing > Line Wrap ) : Default, Aligned or Indent

Also, in summary :

• In order to cut line contents, you may use, either :

  • The default N++ shortcut Ctrl + L ( SCI_LINECUT ), which cuts the entire current line, with its line-break, in the Clipboard

  • The new macro shortcut Alt + Shift + X, which cuts the current line, w/o its line-break, in the Clipboard

• In order to copy line contents, you may use, either :

  • The default N++ shortcut Ctrl + Shift + X ( SCI_LINECOPY ), which copies the entire current line, with its line-break, in the Clipboard

  • The new macro shortcut Alt + Shift + C, which copies the current line, w/o its line-break, in the Clipboard

• In order to copy the Clipboard contents, you may use, either :

  • The default N++ shortcut Ctrl + V ( SCI_PASTE ), which copies the Clipboard contents, at cursor location

  • The new macro shortcut Alt + Shift + V, which replaces the current line, w/o its line-break, by the Clipboard contents

Just play around with these different functions to test it and get acquainted to ;-))

Remark :

• The Cut Current Line w/o EOL macro just deletes the lines contents, without its line-break, and copies it into the Clipboard. However, the line-break of current line is kept. If you also want to get rid of this line-break, simply add a SCI_CLEAR message to this macro, giving :

        <Macro name="Cut        Current Line w/o EOL" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="88">           <!--  Alt + Shift + X  -->
            <Action type="0" message="2312" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Go Very Beginning   SCI_HOME          (51) -->
            <Action type="0" message="2315" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Select to Very End  SCI_LINEENDEXTEND (68) -->

            <Action type="0" message="2177" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Ctrl + X            SCI_CUT           (01) -->
            <Action type="0" message="2180" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />   <!-- Delete              SCI_CLEAR         (05) -->
        </Macro>

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Previously, I answered to similar requests ! Refer to :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12525/replace-current-line-without-inserting-a-new-line/19

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12525/replace-current-line-without-inserting-a-new-line/24

and more recently :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15859/copy-line-without-line-feed/6

And, after some re-testing, I think that the macros described, in this post, which have been shortened, seem to be just as effective ;-))

Nothing new there. :-(

Please follow this information ,To Question about notepad++ double click behavior between certain characters

Go to “Settings > Preferences > Delimiter”

Add all characters you want in the box “Add your character as part of word”. In the screenshot below I’ve added hyphen and comma. When I double click on word notepad the whole string is selected.

I hope this information will be usefull.
Thank You.

I was hoping to ask one last final question if you’d let me. When I use the triple click method or the scintilla command SCI_LINECOPY to select an entire line of text, the cursor always goes immediately to the far left of the next line below it. So when I copy a line in this manner, upon pasting it, I always end up getting an extra blank line below whatever I am pasting. Is there anyway to stop notepad++ from always pasting in a blank line below whatever information I copied from a triple click on the line above?

It is very important to point out that the characters added to the zone add character as part of word, in the Preferences... > Delimiter dialog, are, indeed, considered, by Notepad++, as pseudo-word chars !

For instance, let’s assume the initial text of 3 lines :

1 ABCDE wordsandtext-notepad-morestuff ABCDE
2 ABCDEwordsandtext-notepad-morestuffABCDE
3 ABCDE wordsandtext-notepad-morestuff ABCDE

and that you previously added the - character in the zone, mentioned by @alan-kilborn

• The expression wordsandtext-notepad-morestuff is considered as a true word in lines 1 or 3 :

• After a double-click on that expression

• After a search of wordsandtext-notepad-morestuff in normal mode, with the Match whole word only ticked

• After a search of \bwordsandtext\-notepad\-morestuff\b, in regular expression mode

However :

• The regex \w still does not consider that the dash is a word character

• The regex \w+ still begins after a - char and still ends before a - char

So, in order to mimic the new set of words characters, you should use, for instance, the new regex syntaxes [\w-] and [\w-]+

Best Regards,

guy038

Here’s the setting that you would want to experiment with for this: