Macro recording problem when copying and pasting text

[rodrigoeggea]

Description of the Issue

Macro recording/playback is not copying/pasting text properly.

Steps to Reproduce the Issue

1. Open a document
2. Write some text "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
3. Macro -> Start recording
4. Select the word "fox" with mouse
5. Copy to clipboard with CTRL + C
6. Paste in the above line with CTRL + V
7. Macro -> Stop recording
8. Now select the word "dog" with mouse
9. Copy the word "dog" to clipboard with CTRL + C
10. Run Macro -> Playback
11. Macro will paste dog, and not fox.

Expected Behavior

Macro should copy and paste the correct word "fox" during playback.

Actual Behavior

Macro Playback is pasting the content from clipboard, is not copying the correct word during playback.

Debug Information

Notepad++ v7.9 (64-bit)
Build time : Sep 22 2020 - 03:19:04
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Home Single Language (64-bit)
OS Version : 1909
OS Build : 18363.1198
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll NppFTP.dll NPPJSONViewer.dll

[123dev]

Almost two years later and this has never been looked at?
Kind of defeats the points of the macros when copy and paste does not work.

[alankilborn]

Step 4 does nothing macro-wise (try recording just that step and see that nothing is available for playback -- means that no action was noted), so "fox" can't possibly be pasted in step 11.

[TechDad2018]

The problem is, you are actually recording "Ctrl+V" as the macro, thus whenever you run the macro it is just perfoming a standard "paste" command and putting in whatever is copied in the windows clipboard.

You need to start recording the macro and actually type what you want it to do, then save the macro. Do not use keyboard commands to paste.