<![CDATA[SurroundSelection sometimes hijacks shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2]]>I’m pasting in the issue I submitted over at dail’s SurroundSelection project.

I (and maybe also dail) would like to know if other people are seeing the same behavior.

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When SurrSel is enabled, and text is selected, shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2 results in a SurrSel-like action where the text is surrounded by a pair of NUL:

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… rather than the default action of jumping to the previous instance of text with “Style 2”.

Problem goes away when SurrSel is disabled.

If no text is selected, the shortcut does the expecting jumping.

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24182/surroundselection-sometimes-hijacks-shortcut-ctrl-shift-2RSS for NodeTue, 09 Jun 2026 12:25:40 GMTSat, 25 Feb 2023 23:13:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to SurroundSelection sometimes hijacks shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2 on Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:35:42 GMT]]>

Norton prevents extracting dll from downloaded zip).

If anyone visiting this thread is in similar circumstances, AppVeyor artifacts will be online until about MAR-28-2023:

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84508https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84508Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:35:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SurroundSelection sometimes hijacks shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2 on Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:40:40 GMT]]>@rdipardo Thanks for the prompt attention. As it turns out I can’t test the fix for a day or a few (due to: house sitting, guest account, Norton prevents extracting dll from downloaded zip).

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84446https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84446Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:40:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SurroundSelection sometimes hijacks shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2 on Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:56:14 GMT]]>This appears to fix it:

diff --git a/src/Main.cpp b/src/Main.cpp
index 2b159ef..030e2db 100644
--- a/src/Main.cpp
+++ b/src/Main.cpp
@@ -77,8 +77,11 @@ static void prepareKeyboardChars() {
 	kbProcessChars.clear();
 
 	// Default characters
-	for (UCHAR c : "\"'(){}[]<>`")
+	const char *defaultChars = "\"'(){}[]<>`";
+	for (unsigned i = 0; defaultChars[i]; i++) {
+		UCHAR c = (UCHAR)defaultChars[i];
 		processChars[c] = TRUE;
+	}
 
 	// Add user defined
 	for (SIZE_T i = 0, j = _tcslen(addChars); i < j; i++)

Explanation and patched binaries here.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84444https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84444Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:56:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SurroundSelection sometimes hijacks shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2 on Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:08:28 GMT]]>@Neil-Schipper said in SurroundSelection sometimes hijacks shortcut Ctrl+Shift+2:

I (and maybe also dail) would like to know if other people are seeing the same behavior.

Oh, yeah - me too! I never use that key combo though so would probably never have noticed it.

Cheers.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84440https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/84440Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:08:28 GMT