Eclipse has a keyboard shortcut which deletes either the current line (if nothing is selected) or all lines which are part of the currently selected text: Ctrl+D.
Is there a way to make Ctrl+D do the same thing in Notepad++?
The best I could do is remap the shortcut to Scintilla's SCI_LINE_DELETE, but that only deletes one line at a time, even if the selection spans multiple lines.
Ctrl + Shift + L will achieve the same effect.
Ctrl + L will delete the line but will also keep it in your clipboard replacing clipboard contents.
I'm not sure if you can map Ctrl+D to do the same thing or not. I've not really messed with the keyboard mappings with Notepad++ since they are very similar to those of Visual Studio
I had to map Ctrl+D to both SCI_LINEDELETE and SCI_LINECUT in order to make it behave like Eclipse. Hope this is helpful.
You also need to disable or rebind SCI_SELECTIONDUPLICATE so there's no conflict on Ctrl+D.
To disable a shortcut, highlight it, click Modify set the DropDownList to None, click Apply first and then Okay.
Macro is a good choice here. Though the macro I came up with lags a bit (you can see may be quarter of a second lag between CTRL-D hit and lines getting deleted on a large selections) it works grand both on a single line and multiple lines selection and covers various tricky cases.
So, my macro is:
CTRL + J - if multiple lines are selected they are joined into a single line
HOME - the usual HOME button. Brings cursor to the start of a line (or start of a joined line)
SHIFT + END - selects the line till the end starting from the cursor position
CTRL + SHIFT + L - deletes the whole line
This set of actions covers all possible scenarios of line deletion I have encountered so far during heavy use of notepad++.
There is a shortcut in Notepad++ to delete a line: Ctrl+Shift+L ..but this will only delete a single line.
Even if several lines are selected, it will only delete the line where the cursor is resting and not the highlighted lines.
So, the simplest way to delete a series of selected lines, you have to Record a Macro with these key shortcut combinations:
Ctrl+J
followed by
Ctrl+Shift+L
This will first JOIN the selected lines and then DELETE the whole line.
This is better than using a combination of CUT and DELETE approach as mentioned above (which i've tried) because on some instances, it will also delete non-selected lines.
As a non-macro alternative to @Jan Domozilov's answer, I followed these steps (using Notepad++ v6.5.1 (UNICODE)):
Shortcut Mapper.Join Lines (line 26) to Ctrl+Alt+D.SCI_LINEDELETE (line 90) to Ctrl+D.This allows you to perform the desired behavior with a small modification. You select your text, run the Join Lines command with Ctrl+Alt+D, release only the Alt key, and press D again to delete the text.
One other simpler way is to use the backspace button after selection, this will replace selected line with backspace.
What you can do to make Notepad++ behave more like Eclipse is to:
SCI_SELECTIONDUPLICATE to Ctrl+Alt+Down (or Ctrl+Alt+Up)
SCI_LINEDELETE to Ctrl+Alt+Down (or Ctrl+Alt+Up):
There is BTW a file called shortcuts.xml in the root of the installation folder where these changes can be found. I wouldn't rely on copying this file around however, since I've had problems with that approach installing the same shortcuts on more than one computer.
You can use CTRL+DELETE to delete the entire content of a line. Then all you do is use DELETE again to remove the line feed. If that is not enough for you, you can create a macro to do both actions.
As it seems to have stopped working in the latest version, I recommend you to use the Macro approach for the entire problem. Go to Macro, "Start Recording", then press "Home", "Shift"+"END", "DELETE", "DELETE", then go to Macro and stop your Macro. After that, go to Save Current Recorded Macro" and chose a name and shortcut, (e.g. CTRL+DEL). This reenables the shortcut for delete line.
