Odd. Even though the macro text insertion is supposed to be exactly equivalent to the equivalent keystrokes, the ancient v6.5 apparently treated them differently, because I can confirm your weird behavior in the ancient version. Apparently, at some point over the last decade, that bug was fixed, so the macro started behaving identically to typing the same keystrokes. (The v6.5 behavior with that macro is wrong, buggy behavior, and I am glad it’s fixed now.)

The current behavior is correct: the macro exactly matches the manual keystroke version.

If you want to create a new macro that takes you back to the beginning of the line, so that down-arrow after the macro takes you to the beginning of the next line, then I described how to record that macro.

Otherwise, Notepad++ is behaving as it is designed to behave, and how any user would intuitively expect it to. (I am sorry that the buggy behavior from more than a decade ago conditioned you to the incorrect behavior. But it was incorrect then, and no one will re-introduce that bug just to make you happy.)

I think it may be because the behavior of the mouse cursor is different

I just downloaded a copy of v6.5 (from 2013 – did you really wait 12 years between upgrades?! Yowsah!). I compared the typing cursor (aka, “caret”) behavior, and I couldn’t find any differences.

If I type the HOME key then $% (to go to the start of the line and insert those characters), then do a down arrow, I end up in position 3 on the next line, whether I am in v6.5 (2013) or v8.7.5 (2025). So I don’t know why your macro had the behavior you described in the old version of Notepad++

Since you didn’t share your macro (open %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and scroll down to find the <Macro that you are running, and paste that section of the XML in your post), we cannot know exactly what commands it was sending.

However, I would recommend just recording a new macro that does what you want, and use that macro instead of the old one.

After re-reading your post quite a few times, I think a series of commands that would do what you want is Macro > Start Recording, then HOME then $% then HOME, then probably Macro > Stop Recording – this ends you at the start of the line where you inserted the text; if you want the down arrow to the first column of the next line as part of the macro, then after the second HOME and before Stop Recording, do a DownArrow as well. Whichever you choose, after you’ve stopped recording, Macro > Save current recorded macro and give it a name and optional keystroke (you can also use Macro > Modify Shortcut/Delete macro to delete your old copy of the macro, so they don’t conflict)

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When I read your post yesterday, I didn’t understand what you were asking. Maybe others didn’t, as well.

If you are able to add clarification, it might prompt more response.

Hello, I used to use the old notepad 6.5 for my work, now I switched to the new one because I need many new features but I encountered the following error:
My old notepad: when I perform a macro $% at the beginning of the line, when I use the down arrow on the keyboard, the mouse cursor automatically jumps to the beginning of the line, it only works when using the macro at the beginning of the line
My New notepad 8.5: also performs the old operation = the old macro is pushed forward but now the mouse cursor when going down to the next line is at position 3 and not at the beginning of the line like my old version
I don’t think this is due to the macro, if it is due to the macro, my new notepad still uses the macro from the old notepad, I think it may be because the behavior of the mouse cursor is different, is there any way to help me get back to the old one?, this makes me very uncomfortable.
Thanks
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