How to mimic Visual Studio's CTRL-X, CTRL-V functionality in Notepad++?

Question

I'm using Notepad++ for some projects and miss Visual Studio's Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C functionality that cuts or copies the entire current line when no text is selected. The cut line shortcut seems to be Ctrl + L, which is not as convenient as Ctrl + X and the copy shortcut seems to be Ctrl + D, Ctrl + L, which is even less convenient.

Although a similar question has been asked before, the way to do this in Notepad++ was not provided and I cannot find a solution on the Notepad++ site or on its forums.

Answer 1

I've created a Notepad++ plugin that does this (without the need of python). It can be found at https://bitbucket.org/zastrowm/notepad-visualstudiolinecopy.

Answer 2

Synthesizing all other answers and comments, plus some additional necessary steps that haven't been mentioned:

Scintilla provides a "copyAllowLine" command that does this. Notepad++ doesn't expose that command in the shortcut mapper, but you can call it from a Python script and map Ctrl + C to that script. There is no corresponding command for "cutAllowLine", but a bit of extra Python code will do it. These scripts must be added to the menu and Notepad++ must restart before they will become available in the shortcut mapper.

1. Install Python Script plugin(can be done with Notepad++ Plugin Manager)

2. Create the following two python scripts using the menu Plugins -> Python Script -> New script

   copyAllowLine.py

   editor.copyAllowLine() 

   
   

   cutAllowLine.py

   if editor.getSelectionStart() == editor.getSelectionEnd():     editor.lineCut() else:     editor.cut() 

   
   

3. Python Script -> Configuration

   • under User Scripts, add a menu item for each script.
     
     

4. Restart notepad++ (important)

5. Settings -> Shortcut Mapper...

   • under Scintilla Commands, remove the existing associations for Ctrl + C and Ctrl + X.

   • under Plugin commands, find the scripts you just created and map your shortcuts to them.

Note: when installed via plugin manager, version 1.0.6 was installed. When I attempted to run anything python related in Notepad++ I got an unknown exception from plugin manager. The solution was to manually download and install the 1.0.8 .msi from here: 1.0.8 installer