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Vijay
Vijay

Reputation: 67299

Macro not working as expected in Notepad++

I just installed notepad++ and i am having some problems with macros in it.

i have a simple text file below:

hi 
i am here
this is the third line

i kept the cursor at the first line before "hi".Now i selected start recording macro in the menu.i typed 'hi' before 'hi'(the actual word in the line) like below and pressed [Home] key in the keyboard and then pressed down arrow.Now i selected stop recording macro from the menu

hihi
i am here 
this is the third line

but when i run the macro i am getting the following output

hihi 
hˆi«i am here
hˆi«this is the third line

Could anybody please tell me where is the problem?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5027

Answers (5)

AEHageman
AEHageman

Reputation: 11

I turned off the auto complete feature and this fixed the issue for me.

How do I stop Notepad++ from showing autocomplete for all words in the file

Upvotes: 1

Dzumla
Dzumla

Reputation: 160

I had a problem, I typed in some code and it came out wrong in macro.

Then I neglected the advice to type the code and not paste it, and so I copy/pasted the code I needed and it worked fine.

So my advice: write it somewhere else and copy/paste when you start macro.

Upvotes: 0

Jorge Ferreira
Jorge Ferreira

Reputation: 97967

Upgrade to, at least, version 5.8.2 where that problem was fixed. I was experiencing the same problem, upgraded to version 5.8.5 and the problem is gone.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.8.2

Fix macro recording bug for the non-ASCII characters.

Upvotes: 2

MrWhite
MrWhite

Reputation: 45978

As mentioned in my comment at top, I have also been experiencing this same issue. Strange characters inserted when playing back a macro. This worked OK with previous versions, but appears to have been a bug introduced with version 5.7

It does appear to be an encoding issue. I have been able to workaround this issue by switching to UTF-8 encoding whilst recording the macro - as mentioned in the comment of this bug report.

This has been reported as a bug several times recently. Many are still open, however, one is reported as fixed. And is reported as fixed in the current release (5.8.2) - which also introduces several new features as regards macros. However, nothing later than v5.7 is yet available from the auto-updater within Notepad++ itself. However, you can manually download the latest installer from SourceForge.net.

Upvotes: 1

aparente001
aparente001

Reputation: 359

same here as for Matt. For language, I was in normal text.

Upvotes: 1

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