paste text to the right of cursor

fahrrad13

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

Ekopalypse

@fahrrad13

Did you try to record a macro?

Alan Kilborn

@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)

Ekopalypse

@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.

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).

Ekopalypse

@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.

fahrrad13

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

fahrrad13

@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!

Ekopalypse

@fahrrad13

One solution might be to add

editor.charRight()
editor.charLeft()

to the end of the script.

Alan Kilborn

@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()

fahrrad13

@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()