Feature to switch clipboard text with highlited text.

wessam moustafa

Do we have a feature where we can replace the clipboard text with the current highlighted text?

Ex:
Clipboard has text “XXX” and we have the text “YYY” highlighted in the text editing area. Do we have an option/feature where we can switch them so that clipboard get the “YYY” and the highlighted “YYY” get replaced by “XXX”.

Scott Sumner

@wessam-moustafa

This is not a native Notepad++ function, nor is it provided by any plug-in that I’m aware of. However, a few lines of Pythonscript code can do it if you’re willing to install that plug-in…for example:

def simple_clipboard_set_text(text_to_put_in_cb):
    doc_length = editor.getTextLength()
    curr_pos = editor.getCurrentPos()
    editor.beginUndoAction()
    editor.insertText(curr_pos, text_to_put_in_cb)
    editor.setSel(curr_pos, curr_pos + editor.getTextLength() - doc_length)
    editor.endUndoAction()
    editor.copy()  # put text in clipboard
    editor.undo()

if not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
    if editor.getSelections() == 1:
        if editor.getSelectionMode() == SELECTIONMODE.STREAM:
            orig_selected_text = editor.getSelText()
            editor.paste()  # overwrite existing selection
            simple_clipboard_set_text(orig_selected_text)

wessam moustafa

@Scott-Sumner

Thx a lot. That really helped :)

Just wondering whey didn’t you use “Editor.copyText(text) → int” instead of the “simple_clipboard_set_text” function?

Scott Sumner

@wessam-moustafa said:

Just wondering whey didn’t you use “Editor.copyText(text) → int”

No good reason for not using that function in this. I think I copied the more complex code from a script I had which was doing something a bit more complicated, and totally unnecessary for swapping clipboard and selected text. Thanks for pointing out the simplification!