<![CDATA[Any plugins to extract selected text into a new file (for refactoring)?]]>I’m refactoring a large codebase and it would be helpful to be able to select a section of text, and then with a keypress, cut the text out, open a new file and paste the text into it.

Does such a thing exist?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25262/any-plugins-to-extract-selected-text-into-a-new-file-for-refactoringRSS for NodeFri, 17 Jul 2026 23:09:02 GMTMon, 18 Dec 2023 23:22:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Any plugins to extract selected text into a new file (for refactoring)? on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:04:42 GMT]]>@pbarney, if the intent is refactoring then I don’t think you want to cut snippets out to put them in separate files as you are then creating a large problem of how to safely merge the refactored code back into the original source files.

Thus, it’s usually better to to refactor in place.

For large refactor projects I tend to use scripting languages to process the files rather than Notepad++. The choice of scripting languages does not matter as long as they are ones you are comfortable with.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/91344https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/91344Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:04:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Any plugins to extract selected text into a new file (for refactoring)? on Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:37:24 GMT]]>@pbarney

Well the obvious comes to mind first. Just create a macro of the key presses to cut, open a new file and paste.

It does sound like you might have more to the story though so you would need to elaborate if this doesn’t solve your need.

Terry

PS I should add, that once the macro is created you can assign a shortcut key to activate it.

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