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Quick Tip: Notepad++ - Modify / Delete Macros

Posted in Programming by Sean on the January 18th, 2006

I use Notepad++ (v3.3 currently) for a lot of my development work, and I noticed that I couldn’t find any sites that mention how to delete or edit a macro once you create it.

Here is the rather simple method (simple once you find it anyway… it’s not in the “Macro” menu):

  1. From the top menu, select “Settings” => “Shortcut Mapper…”
  2. Scroll down near the very bottom (my macros started at item 60)
  3. Right-click and select either Modify or Delete (double click will act the same as selecting Modify)

Hope that helps someone!

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  1. Dana said,

    on September 7th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    Thanks! This was a lifesaver!

    Please — no mailing lists.

  2. Penguin said,

    on November 18th, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    Thanks, you saved me hours of research on Sourceforge’s forum…

  3. Jeanne said,

    on February 9th, 2007 at 8:54 pm

    Thank you!!

  4. Roger said,

    on April 26th, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    Yes…as stated thank you for that bit. There really ought to be a way to edit macros on the macro menu.

  5. Steve Wright said,

    on July 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Thanks so much!

  6. Sverrir said,

    on August 28th, 2007 at 6:38 am

    Thanks… Now the only thing missing is a way to edit macros and possibly nest them so you can include macros in new ones.

  7. Aaron said,

    on September 5th, 2007 at 10:19 pm

    u are so smart!!! thank you very much1

  8. harkpabst_meliantrop said,

    on October 2nd, 2007 at 5:53 am

    Huh, still the same in 4.3. One more thank you …

  9. Wahoo said,

    on October 6th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

    Thank you for sharing!

  10. Danilo said,

    on October 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Thx man… I was looking for this…! \o/

  11. Alan said,

    on November 15th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Thanks a lot. Still the same in 4.5. The modify is just changing the shortcut. I am wondering if we can edit the macro by changing the code associated with the macro, as many programs do.

  12. VinTW said,

    on December 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    This tips is really helps me. Thanks very much!

  13. Anurag said,

    on December 21st, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    Seriously, This was the 1st link in google for this problem and it helped me too.

  14. SomeGuy said,

    on March 26th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Works in v4.6.

  15. pepito said,

    on April 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am

    What I really expected to see is how I can edit the code of the macro. Anyway this is also useful

    Thanks

  16. Tamar said,

    on April 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Thanks a lot!

    I accidently assigned the same shortcut to two macros and had no idea how to undo this. This site, the first hit in Google, saved me from a) recording the macro again and b) a lot of searching on other sites.

  17. Frank said,

    on April 21st, 2008 at 9:21 am

    One of the first hits on Google. Great tip.

  18. Wim Molenaar said,

    on July 4th, 2008 at 3:19 am

    Looking for month’s for this option…

    Thanks!!!

  19. Julian said,

    on August 9th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Thanks a lot for the tip. :)

  20. K. Woodard said,

    on August 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    Big Time Saver! Thanks

  21. Craig Newman said,

    on September 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Thanks Sean for taking the time to document the tip. Your website is great. All the best!

  22. alidob said,

    on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:57 am

    thanks, good hint!

  23. bcalmac said,

    on October 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    great neuron saver!

  24. leonid said,

    on October 17th, 2008 at 3:20 am

    Thanks

  25. Kevin said,

    on November 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    wow, thanks for posting this. i looked on the sourceforge site and could only find where others asked and NOBODY answered!

  26. Francesco Bongiovanni said,

    on December 16th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    in order to go an modify an existing macro (in case you’ve made a mistake)

    go to “C:\Documents and Settings\francesco\Application Data\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml”

    :D

  27. kaba said,

    on December 18th, 2008 at 5:07 am

    thanks!

  28. Paul said,

    on December 27th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Thanks a lot! I wanted to delete Notepad++ because I could not delete one macro. Now I’ll continue to use this editor! :)

  29. Beth said,

    on December 30th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Thanks a bunch!!

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