<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[multiple edits with keyboard]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi<br />
Imagine the following scenario. A “-” sign should be inserted into some gaps of the text shown on the picture below<br />
You see, that those are same lines in different languages of the same dialogs, so whenever a “-” sing should be entered into German line two others must be inserted in French and English<br />
Now, I got to click each and every place with a mouse.<br />
I know that Alt+Shirt allows using the keyboard in order to move the multicursor down to the next line. Unfortunately, it only works with the place last selected. So, if I first select 3 gaps on a German line with the mouse and the use Alt+Shirt expecting all three cursor to be moved below it does not happen, instead the only last place is multiplied below<br />
Should it be the case, it would be possible to simplify editing of the text by recording a macro that would spare quite some time.<br />
Would someone suggest a workaround allowing to extend multicursor selection to the lines below?</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25194/multiple-edits-with-keyboard</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:23:11 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25194.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:52:05 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to multiple edits with keyboard on Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:27:28 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/mkupper" aria-label="Profile: mkupper">@<bdi>mkupper</bdi></a> thanks for the suggestion )<br />
Unfortunately, not every instance has to be replaced. Depends on whether the phrase is said by other personage</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90942</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90942</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Kat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:27:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to multiple edits with keyboard on Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:20:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/nick-kat" aria-label="Profile: Nick-Kat">@<bdi>Nick-Kat</bdi></a>, I believe you can do what you desire with a regular expression.</p>
<p dir="auto">I don’t know if you are using spaces or tabs to separate the groups and so account for either using:<br />
Search: <code>(\t|\x20{3})(?=\u)</code><br />
Replace: <code>\1-</code><br />
Replace all will insert the - at the front of every line in the groups. It will cause the text to shift to the right at times meaning the groups won’t be visually lined up.</p>
<p dir="auto">If the desire is to only insert the <code>-</code> in the first lines of the groups then try:<br />
Search: <code>^([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9],[0-9]+ --&gt; [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9],[0-9]+\R.+?)(\t|\x20{3})(?=\u)</code><br />
Replace: <code>\1\2-</code><br />
The first time you do a replace-all it will only fix the first group and so you will need to do replace-all a few times until the count of changes reaches zero.</p>
<p dir="auto">With both of these the search is looking for a prefix or leader immediately followed by a letter. The prefix/leader can either be three spaces in a row or a tab. I decided on three spaces as you may have two spaces in a row within your text.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90904</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90904</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[mkupper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:20:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to multiple edits with keyboard on Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:15:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/peterjones" aria-label="Profile: PeterJones">@<bdi>PeterJones</bdi></a> Thank you for your answer!<br />
On this page <a href="https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13653/new-plugin-bettermultiselection/2">link text</a> a way is described for getting a rectangular selection, but what would help here really is a way to get several rectangular selections at once. Probably, the plug-in does not provide it, because selections can easily overlap…<br />
Also, trying to figure out some other way to achieve it I found that macro screws multiple cursors<br />
To be specific<br />
To reproduce</p>
<ol>
<li>with Ctrl+mouse select 3 places</li>
<li>click “record macro” (3 cursors are blinking)</li>
<li>push “-” button</li>
<li>stop macro recording</li>
<li>with Ctrl+mouse select 3 other places</li>
<li>push “replay macro”<br />
you only get 1 “-”</li>
</ol>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90903</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90903</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Kat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:15:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to multiple edits with keyboard on Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:07:54 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/nick-kat" aria-label="Profile: Nick-Kat">@<bdi>Nick-Kat</bdi></a>,</p>
<p dir="auto">First, I will say, with multi-select as complicated as you described, I am assuming you either have the Better MultiSelect Plugin, or you have Notepad++ v8.6 which natively has a drastically-improved multi-selection capability.  Without one of those two, what you are describing is not likely possible.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Now, I got to click each and every place with a mouse.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I assume you mean <code>Ctrl+Click</code>, because a normal click would just move the cursor rather than add to a multi-select</p>
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<p dir="auto">I know that Alt+Shirt allows using the keyboard in order to move the multicursor down to the next line. Unfortunately, it only works with the place last selected.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><code>Alt+Shift+Arrow</code> actually <em>extends</em> a column selection down, it doesn’t just move the multi-cursor down.</p>
<p dir="auto">In fact, the <code>Alt</code> puts it into column mode, and even with Notepad++ v8.6, I cannot make a multi-selection with successive <code>Ctrl+Click</code> and then extend it into multiple simultaneous column mode using <code>Alt+Shift+Arrow</code>.  (I haven’t used Better MultiSelect enough to know whether it can handle that or not)</p>
<p dir="auto">So if you really want to start with multi-select, and then <em>extend</em> into multiple columns, you should try the plugin, and if that doesn’t work, you might consider an alternative.</p>
<p dir="auto">If, however, you can get away with doing a multi-select, then typing the <code>-</code> , then just <em>moving</em> the multi-select down a line and typing another <code>-</code>, that will work just fine: do the multi-select using <code>Ctrl+Click</code>, then type the <code>-</code> , then down-arrow (no <code>Shift</code> or <code>Alt</code> necessary), then you can type another <code>-</code> if needed on this second line.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90899</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90899</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[PeterJones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:07:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to multiple edits with keyboard on Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:56:30 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/nick-kat" aria-label="Profile: Nick-Kat">@<bdi>Nick-Kat</bdi></a> <img src="/assets/uploads/files/1701431757964-notepad-_3ogehyjso7-resized.png" alt="notepad++_3OGEHyjSo7.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /><br />
schreenshot below better represents the text being edited</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90896</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90896</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Kat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:56:30 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>