Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X no longer work in forms for Notepad++ 8.6.1 and newer.

Question

Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X no longer work in forms for Notepad++ 8.6.1 and newer.

Opened this issue 8 months ago · 7 comments

To replicate the issue:

Install NavigateTo 2.7.0 on Notepad++ 8.6.1 (32bit or 64bit, shouldn't matter).
Copy some text to the clipboard (call this Original selection)
Open the NavigateTo window in any document.
Select some text in the NavigateTo textbox (call this NavigateTo selection)
Copy the NavigateTo textbox selection using Ctrl+C.
Observe that Original selection is still in the clipboard.
Cut the NavigateTo textbox selection using Ctrl+X.
Observe that Original selection is still in the clipboard.
If desired, try doing similar things on the settings form. You should find that Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X are broken everywhere.

My proposed solution

You can fix this issue by following the process I describe in my NppCSharpPluginPack.

If you like, I can submit a PR. While this issue isn't hard to fix, it is annoying and finicky to fix because you have to visually compare the order of Controls.Add calls to the desired tab order for every form in your plugin.

Answer 1 · 2024-02-07T12:29:05.000Z

Hm. I tested it on my machine with v.8.6.2 and I am able to copy and cut text from searchbox without any issues.

Notepad++ v8.6.2   (64-bit)
Build time : Jan 14 2024 - 02:16:00
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.3085
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    mimeTools (3)
    NavigateTo (2.7)
    NppConverter (4.5)
    NppExport (0.4)

Answer 2 · 2024-02-07T12:32:54.000Z

young-developer commented 8 months ago

Answer 3 · 2024-02-07T15:13:16.000Z

@young-developer

Hm. I tested it on my machine with v.8.6.2 and I am able to copy and cut text from searchbox without any issues.

Yes, I'm aware of this. However, if you go to Settings->Preferences...->Editing and uncheck Enable Copy/Cut line without selection after Step 2 of the above list, you will be able to reproduce this bug, unless you have text selected in your current document.

Answer 4 · 2024-02-07T16:42:17.000Z

I cant find such option:

Answer 5 · 2024-02-07T17:15:21.000Z

Darn, you're right. I got confused; that menu item was added in a commit since 8.6.2 (which I tested using the GH Actions artifact), and should be in 8.6.3.

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Answer 6 · 2024-04-02T14:40:44.000Z

I double-checked in 8.6.5 and I am still able to copy without any issues. @molsonkiko please could you retest?

Answer 7 · 2024-04-02T15:11:01.000Z

The issue only manifests when you do the following:

Select Setting->Preferences from the main menu
Go to Editing 1 tab (note: in Notepad++ 8.6.2 to 8.6.4 this would be in the Editing tab)
Uncheck Enable Copy/Cut Line without selection
Make sure you do not have any text selected
Try to use Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C to copy or cut from FrmNavigateTo or from the settings form

I do not know that it's really worthwhile to fix this issue, given what a small corner case this is. As noted here there are a bunch of disadvantages associated with fixing it.