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    • fahrrad13
      fahrrad13 last edited by

      Hey,

      is there anyway that I can paste text to the right of the current cursor position?
      Normally when you paste a text, the cursor moves to the end of the inserted text, however, I want the cursor to stay at the beginning.
      As shown below:

      This is an editor
      

      Standard:

      This is an awesome editor
                        ^ Cursor is here
      

      Desired:

      This is an awesome editor
                 ^ Cursor is here
      

      Thanks,
      Alex

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      • Ekopalypse
        Ekopalypse @fahrrad13 last edited by

        @fahrrad13

        Did you try to record a macro?

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        • Alan Kilborn
          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

          @Ekopalypse

          I don’t see how this could be done as a macro, but it would be great if I could be enlightened! :-)

          A simple bit of Pythonscript seems to satisfy, though:

          p = editor.getCurrentPos()
          editor.paste()
          editor.setEmptySelection(p)
          
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          • Ekopalypse
            Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

            @Alan-Kilborn

            to be honest, I don’t use macros - just thought it was possible.
            And it shouldn’t be that hard for the OP to test whether it is possible or not.

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            • Alan Kilborn
              Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by Alan Kilborn

              @Ekopalypse said in paste text to the right of cursor:

              And it shouldn’t be that hard for the OP to test whether it is possible or not.

              The “stopper” for me in thinking about recording a macro for it is what to do after the paste. Sure I could cursor left 7 times, but this only handles the specific case of the paste data being 7 characters, not the generic case where data could be any width at all (the script handles that aspect of it just fine).

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              • Ekopalypse
                Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                @Alan-Kilborn

                I was thinking about using CTRL+LEFT_ARROW but I guess I understand what you mean.
                The text could be more text to insert and not only one word I see.
                Right - macro seems not be the right choice here.

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                • fahrrad13
                  fahrrad13 @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                  @Alan-Kilborn
                  Thanks for your help, that little python snippet works perfectly!

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                  • fahrrad13
                    fahrrad13 @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn
                    Actually, now that I’m using it, I realised that its not perfectly working.
                    So I managed to use a python snippet and npp shortcut to paste text to the right, but when I (directly) go with the arrow key down to the next line, the cursor jumps to the end of the line/to the position of the end of the pasted text.
                    If I first use left right arrow, npp keeps the right position. Seems like npp doesnt update the cursor position properly.
                    Any idea how to fix this?
                    Thanks for your help!

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                    • Ekopalypse
                      Ekopalypse @fahrrad13 last edited by

                      @fahrrad13

                      One solution might be to add

                      editor.charRight()
                      editor.charLeft()
                      

                      to the end of the script.

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                      • Alan Kilborn
                        Alan Kilborn @fahrrad13 last edited by

                        @fahrrad13 said:

                        but when I (directly) go with the arrow key down to the next line, the cursor jumps to the end of the line/to the position of the end of the pasted text.

                        Put this at the end of the prior script to fix that problem:

                        editor.chooseCaretX()

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                        • fahrrad13
                          fahrrad13 @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                          @Alan-Kilborn thanks a lot - that works perfectly.
                          So here the final solution to this thread summarized from above:

                          p = editor.getCurrentPos()
                          editor.paste()
                          editor.setEmptySelection(p)
                          editor.chooseCaretX()
                          
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