editing a given file sometimes requires elevated permissions due to the file’s protected location (e. g. C:\Program Files\Notepad++\change.log) and N++ can handle this, of course.

But IMHO, there’s a small, yet important, downside with the current implementation: all editing done prior to confirming the launch in Administrator mode is simply lost.
The reason behind is that N++'s newly created admin-instance opens the file once again instead of reading edited contents from the “parent” instance.

Installing SaveAsAdmin plugin solved this before N++ x64 launched.
And I tried my best to get the plugin working with on x64, but I don’t understand C++ good enough to succeed.

From what I do understand, SaveAsAdmin seems to launch a non-windowed “sub-program”, pass in edited contents via pipe and the sub-program (with elevated permissions for itself) then writes the file’s contents to disk.

So, can N++ kind of incorporate SaveAsAdmin’s way of dealing with such files? Maybe by passing the contents to the admin-instance, too?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
Martin