How to mimic Visual Studio's CTRL-X, CTRL-V functionality in Notepad++?

Question

I\'m using Notepad++ for some projects and miss Visual Studio\'s Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C functionality that cuts or copies the entire curr

Answer 1

Go to Settings->Shortcut Mapper and click on the "Scintilla commands" tab at the top. Under there you should be able to change the Ctrl + L command to Ctrl + X.

Answer 2

you can write a program with a global key event hook, which every time you make a Ctrl + X checks if notepad++ is the foremost application running, grabs the screen, checks if any text is selected (by looking at the screenshot and your notepad++ color settings), and sends a WM_KEYPRESS message to the notepad++ window simulating a Ctrl + L (assuming you're using windows).

(this won't put the line into the clipboard though, you'll have to make some character recognition to allow it)

Answer 3

There is a plugin for it at https://github.com/kbilsted/NppPluginCutNCopyLine its open source and the code is easy to modify if you have extra needs.

Answer 4

The plugin from MackieChan: notepad-visual studio line copy

has to be still setup-ed as follow:

1. Put it into notepad++/plugin folder

2. open notepad++ (restart)

3. in Settings -> Shortcut Mapper

   under Scintilla Commands, remove the existing associations for Ctrl + C,X

   under Plugin commands, find the scripts you just created and map your shortcuts to them.

Answer 5

1. Install NppPython plugin (can be done with Notepad++ Plugin Manager)

2. Create this python script using the menu Plugins -> Python Script -> New script:

   if editor.getSelectionStart() == editor.getSelectionEnd():
       editor.lineCut()
   else:
       editor.cut()
   

3. Restart notepad++ (important)

4. Go to Menu Settings -> Shortcut Mapper -> Plugin commands

5. Find the script you just created in the list and set CTRL+X shortcut for it

6. Enjoy!

Answer 6

Synthesizing all other answers and comments, plus some additional necessary steps that haven't been mentioned:

Scintilla provides a "copyAllowLine" command that does this. Notepad++ doesn't expose that command in the shortcut mapper, but you can call it from a Python script and map Ctrl + C to that script. There is no corresponding command for "cutAllowLine", but a bit of extra Python code will do it. These scripts must be added to the menu and Notepad++ must restart before they will become available in the shortcut mapper.

1. Install Python Script plugin(can be done with Notepad++ Plugin Manager)

2. Create the following two python scripts using the menu Plugins -> Python Script -> New script

   copyAllowLine.py

   editor.copyAllowLine()
   

   
   

   cutAllowLine.py

   if editor.getSelectionStart() == editor.getSelectionEnd():
       editor.lineCut()
   else:
       editor.cut()
   

   
   

3. Python Script -> Configuration

   • under User Scripts, add a menu item for each script.
     
     

4. Restart notepad++ (important)

5. Settings -> Shortcut Mapper...

   • under Scintilla Commands, remove the existing associations for Ctrl + C and Ctrl + X.

   • under Plugin commands, find the scripts you just created and map your shortcuts to them.

Note: when installed via plugin manager, version 1.0.6 was installed. When I attempted to run anything python related in Notepad++ I got an unknown exception from plugin manager. The solution was to manually download and install the 1.0.8 .msi from here: 1.0.8 installer