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    Jeffrey Morley @dinkumoil
    last edited by Jeffrey Morley Nov 18, 2018, 12:05 AM Nov 18, 2018, 12:04 AM

    @dinkumoil said:

    @Jeffrey-Morley said:

    I have to … add our plugin to a public list … in order to make it available?

    Not sure where you read this…

    I shouldn’t have assumed that from the pretty strong push for the plugin-admin feature that seems to encourage it.

    It’s still pretty heavy-handed to have an upgrade to the product just invalidate goodness-knows how many local 3rd-party plugins folks have installed in Notepad++ without the installer just automatically moving them to the required new locations or having some backwards-compatible approach that would still use old ones in the old locations while supporting new ones in the new location.

    A LOT of people, who just “use” Notepad++, and are not technical, got a big, unpleasant surprise today.

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      Fake4d
      last edited by Nov 19, 2018, 11:38 AM

      Could someone tell me if it is possible to rescue the PythonScript? https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppythonscript/

      Maybe there is a good alternative? I really need that one …

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        SaturnusDJ
        last edited by Nov 19, 2018, 5:08 PM

        When I want to use the new Npp ‘Plugin Admin’ I have to run notepad++.exe as administrator. Why?

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          Jeffrey Morley
          last edited by Nov 20, 2018, 5:48 PM

          So we want to fix the installer for our 3rd-party plugin RainLexer

          https://github.com/poiru/rainlexer

          Currently, the installer installs the plugin .dll to %APPDATA%\Notepad++\Plugins\RainLexer.dll and the supporting .xml file to %PROGAMFILES%\Notepad++\Plugins\Config\RainLexer.xml (64bit) or %PROGAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\Plugins\Config\RainLexer.xml (32bit).

          With 7.6 of Notepad++, I gather than for a “normal” install, it will now be the plugin .dll to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Notepad++\Plugins\RainLexer\RainLexer.dll and the supporting .xml file to %PROGAMFILES%\Notepad++\Plugins\Config\RainLexer.xml (64bit) or %PROGAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\Plugins\Config\RainLexer.xml (32bit).

          How do we handle those who install Notepad++ as “portable”? Is the structure the same, only self-contained in Notepad++'s single install folder?

          This really has nothing to do with the new Plugin Admin functionality, at this time we have no interest in using that.

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            dinkumoil
            last edited by Nov 21, 2018, 3:22 AM

            @Jeffrey-Morley

            For local/normal installations your current and your new locations for the DLL and the supporting .xml file are wrong.

            Old:
            DLL file: %PROGAMFILES%\Notepad++\plugins\RainLexer.dll (64bit) or %PROGAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\RainLexer.dll (32bit)
            Config file: %Userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\RainLexer.xml

            New (since v7.6)
            DLL file: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Notepad++\plugins\RainLexer\RainLexer.dll (all architectures)
            Config file: %Userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\RainLexer.xml (no changes)

            How do we handle those who install Notepad++ as “portable”? Is the structure the same, only self-contained in Notepad++'s single install folder?

            Portable installations are and have ever been self-contained. The location for the supporting .xml file should be <Notepad++ directory>\plugins\config\RainLexer.xml and the loaction for the plugin itself (since v7.6) <Notepad++ directory>\plugins\RainLexer\RainLexer.dll.

            The Notepad++ message interface provides the NPPM_GETPLUGINSCONFIGDIR message to query the location of the config dir.

            Since v7.6 there is also the NPPM_GETPLUGINHOMEPATH message to query the path to the directory that contains the subdirectories of all plugins, i.e. currently %Userprofile%\AppData\Local\Notepad++\plugins and in the future maybe %ProgramData%\Notepad++\plugins. You have to append the name of your plugin DLL file (excluding the .dll extension) and you get the path to your personal plugin directory.

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              dinkumoil @SaturnusDJ
              last edited by dinkumoil Nov 21, 2018, 3:30 AM Nov 21, 2018, 3:28 AM

              @SaturnusDJ said:

              When I want to use the new Npp ‘Plugin Admin’ I have to run notepad++.exe as administrator. Why?

              Did you select the option “Do not use %APPDATA%” during installation? If yes, perform an uninstall. Then remove %LOCALAPPDATA%\Notepad++ and %PROGRAMFILES%\Notepad++ before reinstalling (enter %LOCALAPPDATA% in your explorer adress bar and delete the Notepad++ folder, repeat the same in %PROGRAMFILES%).

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                scootergrisen
                last edited by Nov 21, 2018, 11:48 PM

                How do i start Plugins Admin/Plugins Manager?

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                  Eric YWY
                  last edited by Nov 22, 2018, 4:45 AM

                  I found that if I checked “Don’t use %APPDATA%” during the installation, the whole “Plugin” tab will be disappear from the tab menu
                  Can it be resumed on next version of Notepad++?

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                    Meta Chuh moderator @Eric YWY
                    last edited by Nov 22, 2018, 4:27 PM

                    @Eric-Yau152

                    you just have to delete the file DoLocalConf.xml inside your C:\Program Files\Notepad++ folder if you installed the 64 bit version, or in C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ if you installed the 32 bit version.

                    in case the plugins have never been installed to the correct path %localappdata%\Notepad++:
                    just download and reinstall your desired (32/64 bit) installer from here : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.6.html

                    you don’t have to uninstall first, just install over it

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                      samcan
                      last edited by Nov 23, 2018, 10:01 PM

                      I just installed 64-bit v7.6 on Windows 7, and I don’t have the plugins menu appear at all unless I run the program as an administrator. Then, the plugins menu does appear.

                      It seems like even if I can’t install any plugins as a standard user using the plugin manager, I still should be able to use the installed plugins, correct?

                      I don’t have Local Conf mode enabled like Eric Yau152.

                      Debug info as standard user follows:

                      Notepad++ v7.6 (64-bit)
                      Build time : Nov 13 2018 - 00:12:05
                      Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                      Admin mode : OFF
                      Local Conf mode : OFF
                      OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
                      Plugins : none

                      Debug info as admin user (in standard user, right-clicking and running as admin):

                      Notepad++ v7.6 (64-bit)
                      Build time : Nov 13 2018 - 00:12:05
                      Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                      Admin mode : ON
                      Local Conf mode : OFF
                      OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
                      Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll nppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

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                        Eric YWY @Meta Chuh
                        last edited by Nov 26, 2018, 3:36 AM

                        @Meta-Chuh

                        Thanks for you reply

                        I have

                        1. uninstalled the program and removed the custom settings in program file folder
                        2. removed folder “%localappdata%\Notepad++”
                        3. installed the program and checked “Don’t use %APPDATA%”
                          the whole “Plugin” tab is still NOT appeared at the tab menu

                        Env:
                        WIn 10 Pro 64 bit
                        i7 7600u + 16GB RAM

                        Please note, thanks

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                        • jackpozJ
                          jackpoz
                          last edited by Nov 26, 2018, 10:01 AM

                          It would be nice to have in Plugin Admin the same list of plugins previously available through Plugin Manager, for example TextFX and “Poor Man’s T-Sql Formatter” are missing. I had to revert to version 7.5.9 to be able to load these plugins.
                          It would be also nice to have the plugin list sorted by name.

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                            Meta Chuh moderator @Eric YWY
                            last edited by Nov 26, 2018, 10:50 AM

                            @Eric-YWY

                            i think you misunderstood:
                            you should never select “Don’t use %APPDATA%” if you install to C:\Program Files or plugins and updater will not be shown

                            so your options are:

                            install to a custom folder you create
                            (example C:\Applications\Notepad++)
                            there you can activate "Don’t use %APPDATA%” in the installer
                            this type of installation allows every user to see the same plugins and setting

                            or

                            make a default install without selecting "Don’t use %APPDATA%”
                            this way every user has its own plugins folder inside %APPDATA%

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                              Eric YWY @Meta Chuh
                              last edited by Nov 27, 2018, 4:45 PM

                              @Meta-Chuh

                              noted, it works now, thank you!

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                                donho
                                last edited by Nov 28, 2018, 1:27 PM

                                FYI, the new plugins schema (simplified) has been modified:
                                https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16645/new-plugins-home-where-notepad-will-load-from

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                                  Eric YWY
                                  last edited by Dec 7, 2018, 9:11 AM

                                  Found that the Notepad++ main program cannot be restarted after installing the update of plugin from Plugin Admin

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                                    dinkumoil
                                    last edited by Dec 7, 2018, 1:18 PM

                                    @Eric-YWY

                                    Which plugin did you install?

                                    It seems like the plugin has to be changed to adopt the new plugin hosting model of v7.6. Look for a folder with companion files and move this folder to <Npp-install-dir>\plugins.

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                                      Dave Bongfishtester
                                      last edited by May 14, 2019, 7:32 AM

                                      I’ve spent half a day now trying various versions of Notepad++ with PythonScript. The deadline for the files which my script was supposed to fix was yesterday afternoon.

                                      Thank you for the wonderfully bug-free and well-explained update process :-(

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                                        Meta Chuh moderator @Dave Bongfishtester
                                        last edited by May 14, 2019, 9:34 AM

                                        @Dave-Bongfishtester

                                        i apologise for your inconvenience.

                                        many thanks for your patience and best regards.

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                                        • ahmoy lawA
                                          ahmoy law
                                          last edited by Jul 1, 2020, 9:38 AM

                                          Hi all,
                                          I want to update the plugin list to add my new plugin but received this error,

                                          “remote: Permission to notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList.git denied to ahmoylaw.
                                          fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList.git/’: Failure when receiving data from the peer”

                                          To be frank, i’m not that familiar with GitHub. What is the correct procedure to update the plugin list?

                                          Thanks

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