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Preserve folding when copy-pasting?

2014-12-06
2014-12-09
  • Daniel Ferreira

    Daniel Ferreira - 2014-12-06

    Whenever I copy-paste one or more folders, they are always pasted as unfolded (regardless if they where folded or not when I copied them).

    Is there a way to preserve the folding state when copy/pasting?

    If I could at least choose to ALWAYS paste as folded, that would be great!

     
  • THEVENOT Guy

    THEVENOT Guy - 2014-12-06

    Hello Daniel,

    Just read my post to Kocrachon, six months ago, who seemed to have the same problem, at the address below :-)

    https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331754/thread/e2cf77bd/#d633

    You need to use the Copy Bookmarked Lines feature of N++, to copy the visible lines ONLY :-)

    Of course, you may bookmark any "visible" line of the folded part, individually, by using the CTRL + F2 shortcut, but the best would be using the Mark dialog ( CTRL + F and Mark tab ) to automatically bookmark them, on a specific criterion, as I explained in that post !

    I agree that a Copy Visible Lines ONLY command could be an interesting feature, not yet implemented in N++, unfortunately :-((

    Best Regards,

    guy038

    P.S. :

    Don't pay attention to the IMPORTANT paragraph, at the end of the linked post. I just realize that it's was useless, as you just have to do a CTRL + A and a CTRL + V actions !

     

    Last edit: THEVENOT Guy 2014-12-06
  • Daniel Ferreira

    Daniel Ferreira - 2014-12-06

    Hello,
    thank you for your response!

    If I understood it right, the solution you found would only copy the titles of the folded folders, right?

    I want to keep copying all the content of a folded folder (not only the visible part), just as it does normally.

    I just don't want the folder to be unfolded when it's pasted.

    Sorry if I am not being able to explain correctly. Let me know if you want me to send some examples!
    Thanks again
    Daniel

     
  • THEVENOT Guy

    THEVENOT Guy - 2014-12-07

    Hi Daniel,

    Oh, It's just my fault ! I should have read more carefully, as you said :

    If I could at least choose to ALWAYS paste as folded, that would be great!

    But, I'm afraid this feature is NOT available yet :-((

    Of course, you could easily fold, again, the totality of the current file, where you pasted the clipboard, by using the View -> Fold All option or the ALT + 0 shortcut ( on Main keyboard ) but I suppose that this behaviour is not exactly the one you would expect to, wouldn't you ?

    Sorry, I'm not able to think about an other possible solution, right now :-((

    Cheers,

    guy038

     

    Last edit: THEVENOT Guy 2014-12-07
  • Daniel Ferreira

    Daniel Ferreira - 2014-12-09

    Too bad...
    Yes, I usually use ALT+0.

    Thank you again guy038!

     
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