Community
    • Login

    [Feature request] Make it possible to Enable/Disable plugins in Plugin Manager

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Notepad++ & Plugin Development
    plugin manager
    5 Posts 4 Posters 4.3k Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • Thunder TT
      Thunder T
      last edited by

      Plugins are sometimes the culprit for Notepad++ crash. It would be useful to implement a feature to disable and enable plugins in Plugin Manager dialog box temporarily.
      A button can be added to Plugin Manager dialog under “Installed” plugins section in order to disable/enable selected items without the need to remove them permanently.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Scott SumnerS
        Scott Sumner
        last edited by

        A way to do this already exists. See the -noPlugins option here: http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Command_Line_Switches

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • TonyPT
          TonyP
          last edited by

          im sure they meant individual plugins. it would be a great feature. this way you can turn them on one by one instead of having to disable them all. that is a great feature for advanced users. you could uncheck an installed plugin and click a disable button. vote +1 for implementing.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • botman99B
            botman99
            last edited by

            The Plugin Manager doesn’t load them though (the Notepad++ native code does). You would need something in the ‘Plugins’ dropdown to exclude a specific plugin and then restart Notepad++ (or optionally be able to manually unload a plugin after it has been loaded).

            You can achieve the same effect by just changing the file extension from “.dll” to something else, like “.xdll” and Notepad won’t find the file to load it. Then just rename it back to “.dll” when you are done.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • Thunder TT
              Thunder T
              last edited by

              Thanks for your reply. I thought that it’s not easy to implement this feature; I thought of sending this post after I’ve installed several plugins (mostly old) and Notepad++ crashed the next time I launched it and I couldn’t figure out which plugin caused the crash. though I solved the problem later.

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • First post
                Last post
              The Community of users of the Notepad++ text editor.
              Powered by NodeBB | Contributors