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I've always loved Vi for its handling of invaluable shortcuts like this. Duplicate line in Vi: 'yyp'.

ctrl+d in notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

i'm a vi fan also.

that being said - i'm leary of features that facilitate copying and pasting. i realize that for html development it's useful, but i've slogged my way through enough unfactored code to think that maybe pasting is something we should prohibit editors from doing all together.

fortunately, vi also has good global search and replace facilities.

Zend does this for PHP, ctrl+d.

Alex beat me to the 'yyp'. In vi, you can also say something like 'yy 3p' (copy line and paste it 3 times) or '4y 3p' (copy the next 4 lines, then paste them 3 times)

I'm pretty sure you can do it in VS.NET with Resharper, though I don't remember the actual shortcut key (as the duplicate line isn't a feature I personally use). If you're not using Resharper... you're missing out! - it can do a helluva lot more than just duplicate lines ;-)

I’m pretty sure you can do it in VS.NET with Resharper

So I need a $149 plugin to get a duplicate line shortcut?

I guess most of the editors have similar stuff... Don't they?

I do remember my very old MSDOS days with TDE.

And for anybody using Windows nowadays, Duplicate line is: Ctrl-C Ctrl-V

Yup!!

Ok, here's a free one for you from another EditPlus user, this works in VisualStudio 2005 (8.0) and probably 7.1 and 7.0:

Sub DuplicateLine()
    Dim line As String
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(0)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine(True)
    line = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(0)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = line
End Sub

If you assign the macro to CTRL-j it works just like EditPlus except a little bit slower, but then again, everything is slower in VS2005.

All you have to do is paste it in one of the existing modules in the Macro IDE. To assign to a key, searxh for "Duplicate" in the keyboard customizing dialog.

-Mike

Thank Mike!!! you rule;

if you want to prefect your macro, you need to add the event were some text is already selected, and copy this selected text only!

I used to work in Zend (PHP) and this feature was one of my favourites

Noam