CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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ScottishBen
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CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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I'm a big user of Topstyle and Notepad++, would it be possible to have a CTRL+D feature to duplicate the current line or the selected text?

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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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Ben, how would this differ from CTRL-C (Copy) then CTRL-V (Paste)? Whle these aren't listed in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, they seem to work normally.

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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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It's just a nice quick feature, than rather reaching for the mouse > highlighting the line you want > pressing CTRL+C > moving to where you want the copy > pressing CTRL+V.

You press CTRL+D and it puts a copy on the line below for you. I use it quite a lot in Notepad++. Just a thought :)
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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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Sounds like a job for a macro recorder, which would be a nice addition to the program. :D
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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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I vote for CTRL+D to duplicate line
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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

Post by Lou »

I too use ctrl-D in graphic editors, but not sure I see the advantage over ctrl-C/ctrl-V cut/past in a text editor.

After you use ctrl-D to duplicate the line(s) you still need to move and drop them where they are needed.

Guess it depends on whether your background is based on, text or graphic editors. ctrl-X/C/V have been used in text type editors sense before there were graphics editors. JMHO
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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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I vote to add the duplacate line feature too. May be not Ctrl-D especially, but assingable with keyboard shortcuts. I'll assign it to Ctrl-D for myself. The line duplucation is the standard fo powerful text editors now and I use it often in other editors for my work, espesially in Notepad++ as the editor for everithing and Webuilder as pure HTML editor. TopStyle just for CSS. I can use Webuilder for CSS too, but prefer to use separated editors for HTML and CSS, have some usability reasons for this. And this as very simple feature.
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Re: CTRL+D Duplicate line or text

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Note that Ctrl+D duplicates a line in the editor in CSS HTML Validator.
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