How can I use Notepad++ to highlight a range of rows for deletion (aside for dragging with a mouse)?
Is there a shortcut key for tagging the beginning of a block and another for tagging the end of the block to highlight the block for copying, moving, deleting, etc?
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The block I need to highlight covers about 50 pages. I am catching the trap from a USB interaction where the USB is polled many, many, many (did I say "many"?) times between useful pieces of information. I need to eliminate all the redundant poll requests to summarize an output file to a manageable size for printing. A typical trap size begins as about 16MB and gets reduced to about 1MB after manually filtering out the redundant stuff.
The problem with using the mouse is if you click the start line, hol the left mouse down, and start to drag down beyond the page, it takes a while to scroll to the final line.
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I think I remember some old editors were working like this. WordStar perhaps.
If you wish to operate on line ranges,, you can drop a bookmark on each desired line and thn use the bookmark operations at the end of the Search menu. Or simply click the starting line so as to select it, and then use Shift+navigation commands.
For stream text ranges, you can drop some brace at the beginning of range, drop another at the end and use TextFX -> TextFX Quick -> Mark to matching ([{< brace.
I can see how to do the same with rectangular selections, with an extra macro.
What is wrong with using the mouse? It is the fastest way I think.
CChris
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How can I use Notepad++ to highlight a range of rows for deletion (aside for dragging with a mouse)?
Is there a shortcut key for tagging the beginning of a block and another for tagging the end of the block to highlight the block for copying, moving, deleting, etc?
The block I need to highlight covers about 50 pages. I am catching the trap from a USB interaction where the USB is polled many, many, many (did I say "many"?) times between useful pieces of information. I need to eliminate all the redundant poll requests to summarize an output file to a manageable size for printing. A typical trap size begins as about 16MB and gets reduced to about 1MB after manually filtering out the redundant stuff.
The problem with using the mouse is if you click the start line, hol the left mouse down, and start to drag down beyond the page, it takes a while to scroll to the final line.
I think I remember some old editors were working like this. WordStar perhaps.
If you wish to operate on line ranges,, you can drop a bookmark on each desired line and thn use the bookmark operations at the end of the Search menu. Or simply click the starting line so as to select it, and then use Shift+navigation commands.
For stream text ranges, you can drop some brace at the beginning of range, drop another at the end and use TextFX -> TextFX Quick -> Mark to matching ([{< brace.
I can see how to do the same with rectangular selections, with an extra macro.
What is wrong with using the mouse? It is the fastest way I think.
CChris