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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

Mousepad - comment line shortcut

Hi,

Does MP have a keyboard shortcut for commenting lines (inserting # at the beginning)?.

~/.config/Mousepad/accels.scm didn't show anything relevant.

Thanks

Tamaranch

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Registered: 2020-12-31

Posts: 305

Re: Mousepad - comment line shortcut

No, you have to use search & replace, enable regular expressions, and replace (^.) with #\1.

jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

Re: Mousepad - comment line shortcut

Thanks. Is it possible to define this as a shortcut/macro?.

Tamaranch

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Registered: 2020-12-31

Posts: 305

Re: Mousepad - comment line shortcut

Unfortunately not, I thought several times to make macros like notepad++, but I never got to it

jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

Re: Mousepad - comment line shortcut

Thanks.

Signy

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Registered: 2020-10-20

Posts: 52

Re: Mousepad - comment line shortcut

There is a workaround on Linux - make a shortcut in AutoKey (I would use AutoHotKey on Windows, the script would be different). I use 2 python scripts (AutoKey only):

# Write (add) BASH comment in front of every line
import time, os

# Backup previous value of clipboard
try:
  oldClip = clipboard.get_clipboard()
  time.sleep(0.3)
except: 
  oldClip = ""
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+c")
time.sleep(0.2)  

newClip = clipboard.get_clipboard()

# Use new filled clipboard
output = "#" + newClip.replace("\n","\n#")
clipboard.fill_clipboard(output)
time.sleep(0.3)
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+v")
time.sleep(0.5)

# Revert clipboard
clipboard.fill_clipboard(oldClip)

del newClip, output, oldClip

# Remove BASH comment in front of every line
import time, os, re

# Backup previous value of clipboard
try:
  oldClip = clipboard.get_clipboard()
  time.sleep(0.2)
except: 
  oldClip = ""
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+c")
time.sleep(0.2)  
  
newClip = clipboard.get_clipboard()

# Use new filled clipboard
output = newClip.replace("\n#","\n")
output = re.sub("^#", "", output)
clipboard.fill_clipboard(output)
time.sleep(0.2)
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+v")
time.sleep(0.5)

# Revert clipboard
clipboard.fill_clipboard(oldClip)

del newClip, output, oldClip

Notes:

• AutoKey allows you to set your own shortcut.

• Window filter in AutoKey is strongly reccomended (for example mousepad\.Mousepad)

• I use the  time.sleep() commands because AutoKey does not work very well on Xubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 - for example filling up clipboard this way takes some time, but AutoKey does not wait till the operation is finished. So I use a lot of sleep commands to be sure previous command is finished.