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    Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
    last edited by Paul Wormer Mar 15, 2022, 2:56 PM Mar 15, 2022, 2:55 PM

    @paul-wormer
    I’m afraid my question wasn’t clear, so here are two pictures for further clarification.

    1. When I am defining the macro, I see this:
    While defing.png
    Hence, when I copy (ctrl-c) this selection, I copy lines without CRLF (eol chars). This is what I want.

    2. After I have executed the macro, I see this:
    While executing.png
    Hence, when I copy (ctrl-c) this selection, I copy lines with CRLF (eol chars). This is not what I want.

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      PeterJones @Paul Wormer
      last edited by PeterJones Mar 15, 2022, 5:34 PM Mar 15, 2022, 5:33 PM

      @paul-wormer ,

      I cannot tell what you’re doing wrong, but when I recorded Alan’s steps from this post, but used columns 1-5 instead of 5-22, it did exactly what I expected.

      The resulting macro is

              <Macro name="22717" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
                  <Action type="0" message="2316" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                  <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42020" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                  <Action type="0" message="2318" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                  <Action type="0" message="2428" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                  <Action type="0" message="2429" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                  <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42020" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                  <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
              </Macro>
      

      (this does everything except the paste at the end: ctrl home, start select, ctrl end, make column mode, copy)

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        Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
        last edited by Mar 15, 2022, 7:12 PM

        Doing a bit of digging into what @peterjones supplied…

        From here:
        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/scintilla/include/Scintilla.h

        One can see that 2428 and 2429 are the key things that get one into column mode in this macro; evidence:

        #define SCI_CHARLEFTRECTEXTEND 2428
        #define SCI_CHARRIGHTRECTEXTEND 2429
        

        The “RECT” part of those is key as it plays to column select mode instead of stream select mode.

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          Paul Wormer @PeterJones
          last edited by Mar 16, 2022, 6:12 AM

          @alan-kilborn@peter-jones
          Thank you for the hints. I will be away for a few days but after return I will read your answers in more detail. I’ll compare Alan’s recipe (from which I learned the procedure but I had forgotten the link) with my steps and l will look into my shortcuts.xml to see the result.

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            Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
            last edited by Mar 21, 2022, 10:00 AM

            @Alan-Kilborn @PETER-JONES
            I’m back and looked first at Alan’s procedure from Januari 19, 2022. This is the post that I thought I remembered, but I see now that my memory failed me and that I did not follow the exact same steps. However, when I now copy them exactly, I encounter a peculiarity: my alt-shift-right gives the following popup:

            alt-shift-right.png
            The Shortcut mapper>Scintilla commands assigns alt-shift-right to: SCI_CHARRIGHTRECTEXTEND, which sounds okay and not like a popup of (part of) the Edit menu. As far as I’m aware, I did not fiddle around with any Npp keys, so that I have default settings. The debug info is:

            Notepad++ v8.3.3 (64-bit)
            Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
            Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
            Command Line :
            Admin mode : OFF
            Local Conf mode : OFF
            Cloud Config : OFF
            OS Name : Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
            OS Version : 2009
            OS Build : 19043.1586
            Current ANSI codepage : 1252
            Plugins : ColumnTools.dll DSpellCheck.dll HexEditor.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll PythonScript.dll

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              Paul Wormer @Paul Wormer
              last edited by Mar 21, 2022, 10:12 AM

              @paul-wormer Correction: Alan’s post is from 2021 not 2022.

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                PeterJones @Paul Wormer
                last edited by PeterJones Mar 21, 2022, 5:00 PM Mar 21, 2022, 4:59 PM

                @paul-wormer ,

                Something is going wrong with your recording – something getting in the way, or what have you. So just skip the recording, and use my pre-recorded macro instead: exit all instances of Notepad++, edit shortcuts.xml (you can safely do it in a new instance of Notepad++, or in a separate editor), paste the macro I supplied in the macros-section, save, exit Notepad++ (or other editor). Run Notepad++, and a macro named “22717” will show up in your macro menu. That should do what you described you wanted (since it’s what I recorded when I did what you said you wanted)

                which sounds okay and not like a popup of (part of) the Edit menu

                What you displayed is not “part of the Edit menu”, what you displayed was the Right Click Context Menu, which means Notepad++ saw a “right click” at some point while you were in the editor panel of Notepad++.

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                  Paul Wormer @PeterJones
                  last edited by Mar 22, 2022, 7:52 AM

                  @peterjones Your macro works. Thank you.

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                    Paul Wormer @PeterJones
                    last edited by Mar 22, 2022, 11:59 AM

                    @peterjones
                    My mistake was silly, yet other newbies may make it too:
                    I interpreted alt+shift-left as alt-shift-left-mouse and not as alt-shift-left-arrow. (And similarly for right).

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                      Alan Kilborn @Paul Wormer
                      last edited by Mar 22, 2022, 12:23 PM

                      @paul-wormer

                      I could be wrong, but I don’t think any mouse action in the editing window will be macro-recorded – you have to do everything via keyboard.

                      Also, if I’m trying to express mouse actions here in a Community posting, I might do:

                      • Ctrl+click (= hold Ctrl while left-clicking the mouse)
                      • Alt+rclick (= hold Alt while right-clicking the mouse)
                      • Shift+ dclick (= hold Shift while double-clicking the left mouse button)
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