Keys not being reognized

[Larry Schwartz]

Today, my most recent version of NP++ (?8.4.7?) stopped recognizing Home, End, backspace, Enter and Delete; the arrow keys work. ALL keys work in Word & Excel. I downloaded and installed 8.4.8 (64 bit) accepting the defaults but no change.

[PeterJones]

@Larry-Schwartz ,

There is nothing inherent in Notepad++ v8.4.7 or v8.4.8 that would reject those keys. My guess is that either you have something (AutoHotKey, or a rogue program, or malware or worse) that is intercepting those keys (maybe only sometimes, since they seem to work for MS products), or something was corrupted in your %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, which is where keyboard shortcuts are defined.

To check the latter, the first step could be Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Scintilla Commands, then filter for HOME or END or the other keystrokes you mentioned, and see if they are still assigned to anything (or if they show up with a reddish background, which would indicate that some other command is also assigned to that keystroke, which could cause unexpected behavior)

Alternately, you could exit Notepad++, delete/rename %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and then restart Notepad++: it will recreate the shortcuts.xml file with default values, and it should go back to working normally. If not, then it’s most likely that some external application has hijacked those keys in a weird manner.