Macro works normally, but fails when shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+C

Mike Newman

Hi All,

I have a Macro that works 100% from the Macro menu, as well as setting it to Ctrl+Shift+V, but does not work with Ctrl+Shift+C. Any ideas? I have tried restarting, rerecording, etc. Current code and Debug info are below. I have also tried deleting the Action type “2” line to match the old backup file, with no behavior change.

        <Macro name="Copy line no break" Ctrl="yes" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="86">
            <Action type="0" message="2453" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2452" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42002" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        </Macro>

Notepad++ v8.6   (64-bit)
Build time : Nov 23 2023 - 16:58:44
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.2715
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    mimeTools (2.9)
    NppConverter (4.5)
    NppExport (0.4)

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Moderator Note: This topic was split off into its own topic, but was originally part of HELP: Having trouble with Macros in v8.5.3 or later

Alan Kilborn

@Mike-Newman said in HELP: Having trouble with Macros in v8.5.3 or later:

does not work with Ctrl+Shift+C.

Well, if you are talking about v.8.6 (you didn’t say), then in that version Ctrl+c has been hard-bound to some special “copy” functionality, going around the normal shortcut capability. The addition of Shift to the combo may not matter. (It’s just a theory that this might be what is interfering, not fact).

Michael Vincent

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mkupper

I would move @Mike-Newman’s post and follow-up to it’s own thread. It seems to have nothing to do with the Having trouble with Macros in v8.5.3 or later topic.

Ctrl+Shift+C is not bound to anything in v8.6. Doing so results in an ETX character getting added to the file you are editing. Recording a simple macro and saving it, to be activated by Ctrl+Shift+C shows that Ctrl+Shift+C works and activates my simple macro. I then copy/pasted the Actions from Mike Newman’s on top of the Actions for the I created for Ctrl+Shift+C and it seems to work. I saw that the example macro Mike posted is for Ctrl-Shift-V and so also copied all of that macro into my shortcuts.xml. Ctrl-Shift-V now does the same thing as Ctrl-Shift-C.

While I wrote “seems to work” I did not attempt to decode what the macro is supposed to do. It seems to ignore all lines in a selection other than the last and to load that into the copy/paste buffer. If that’s the intent, then it works.

PeterJones

@mkupper ,

I have “moved” the original post and responses to this separate topic

@Mike-Newman ,

Based on @mkupper’s results, I am thinking that you have a shortcut conflict: maybe you have another macro (or other menu entry) already mapped to Ctrl+Shift+C. The easiest way to see this is to open Macro > Modify Shortcut/Delete Macro. If there is a conflict with your Copy line no break macro shortcut, it will show up in a different color; and if you click on it, the dialog will show you where the conflict is.

For example, in my screenshot below, the macro Begin/End ColumnSelect has a conflict with Edit > Begin/End Select in Column Mode (‡):

‡ Note: The screenshot shows Main menu | 27 Begin/End Select in Column Mode, and if I look on the Main menu tab in the dialog, I can see that the 27th entry is actually in the Edit menu; you may have to do a similar investigation to figure out exactly where the conflict lies.

Mike Newman

Thanks, @mkupper and @PeterJones. Yes, the macro is Home>Shift+End>Copy. No conflicts in my case. Not sure why mine is strange. I’ll double-check all updates and try a full machine restart again.

mkupper

@Mike-Newman - As the things you have tried seem like the correct actions I took a closer look at your debug info from the first post of this thread. I noticed

OS Name : Windows 11 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.2715

I am running

OS Name : Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 22621.2861

and am now wondering if something in your Windows system or another app is capturing the Ctrl+Shift+C before it gets to Notepad++.

On my machine a Ctrl+Shift+C in plain old Notepad* seems to behave the same as Ctrl+C

* I uninstalled the Microsoft Notepad app from my machine and notepad.exe runs C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.EXE which loads instantly and behaves much like the classic Notepad.

Mike Newman

@mkupper Just following up here, as I finally got this working correctly. It was indeed another app (Webex in my case) capturing the shortcut first. I typically don’t like to download third-party apps (fourth-party?), but I gave Hotkey Detective a try, and it led me to the culprit.