@donho

if you wish a simpler solution, that does not compromise your currently implemented security to others than to the concerning enterprises, you could make it possible to use an alternative nppPluginList.json in %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\Config instead of the default nppPluginList.dll under the following condition.

this must be accompanied by a clearly perceptible (disclaimer) warning confirm box (cancel, ok) that displays a warning like:
“Warning: you are about to install/uninstall Plugins from a custom 3rd party source.
please verify this source before you continue.”
which should be triggered each time someone starts plugins admin, then also each time someone tries to install a plugin in plugins admin, and each time if someone tries to uninstall a plugin.

btw: it does not have to be a json, it could also be an unsigned nppPluginList.dll with an embedded 256.
and now that i mentioned “unsigned dll”:
currently a tempered nppPluginList.dll will just show an empty plugins list.
a good idea would be to check for that too, so you have 3 cases:

nppPluginList.dll is signed by you >
default behaviour as it is now nppPluginList.dll is unsigned >
show disclaimer warning nppPluginList.dll is signed by you but tempered (invalid certificate) >
cease operation, issue an alert window and exit plugins manager

alternative solutions need more work for each enterprise request.

pm. me if you like

@lutz

afaik this is a newer version/implementation https://github.com/kbilsted/NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net

@donho

The question is: Is Notepad++ able to load autocompletion files from another location than <NPP_INST>\autoCompletion? If not, plugins will not be able to store their own autocompletion files to user’s machines. Thus this location would be wrong.

@gurikbal-singh RESOLVED: I tried to find out if any of the plug-ins all of sudden started to tamper with anything so I removed them (almost) all from the folder – and yes, after NPP restart, I saw the console and JSLint working. So I started to add all of the plug-ins back by one or two at a time and found out that actually none of the plugins I use tamper with anything and what I had is some obscure glitch that probably had something to do with window position of certain plugins or something like that.

If this glitch had to do with some weird window positions (not sure, but it is likely), then can we ask the developer(s) to add something alike to “Cascade windows” function from the good old days? Not literally that, of course, as we are dealing not with tabs/windows for files open, but with auxiliary windows/consoles that can just go away to somewhere.

Thanks for you help.

that worked.
thanks very much.

@Eko-palypse
dialog is dialog after all
form can perform as dialog by code this.dialog.show();
but i’m used this.show();

Known issue since 7.6. See https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/issues/136.
There is no fix for that yet. Features of builtin plugin admin are still in flow. I will check out if PM could be adapted to the new requirements, if the changes of N++ have been stabilized.