Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList

Meta Chuh · 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

samcan · 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

Eric YWY · Nov 26, 2018, 3:36 AM

@Meta-Chuh

Thanks for you reply

I have

uninstalled the program and removed the custom settings in program file folder
removed folder “%localappdata%\Notepad++”
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

jackpoz · 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.

Meta Chuh · Nov 27, 2018, 4:45 PM

@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%

Eric YWY · Nov 27, 2018, 4:45 PM

@Meta-Chuh

noted, it works now, thank you!

donho · 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

Eric YWY · Dec 7, 2018, 9:11 AM

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

dinkumoil · 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.

Dave Bongfishtester · 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 :-(

Meta Chuh · May 14, 2019, 9:34 AM

@Dave-Bongfishtester

i apologise for your inconvenience.

many thanks for your patience and best regards.

ahmoy law · 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

cmeriaux · Jul 1, 2020, 12:26 PM

@ahmoy-law

you have to fork the repository (tutorial https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/fork-a-repo )
add your plugin in your own forked repository, in the file src/pl.x86.json and src/pl.x68.json.
commit and push this modification to your own forked repository
submit this commit to the original repository aka doing a pull request (tutorial https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork )

ahmoy law · Jul 2, 2020, 8:28 AM

Many thanks to @cmeriaux .

I think, I have managed to create a pull request to the master. Admin please evaluate whether my plugin is good enough to be inside the official Notepad++ plugins.

Justin Wagner · Nov 2, 2022, 4:39 PM

I just cloned the latest notepad-plus-plus source code from git and built it successfully in VS2022. I’m now trying to get the Plugins Admin option working in the Plugins menu.

I’ve cloned the nppPluginList code and built it, but I’m not sure what I’m now supposed to do with the output to get the menu item to appear in notepad++. I’ve taken the nppPluginList.dll and placed it under the bin64/plugins folder for the notepad-plus-plus project but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

PeterJones · Nov 2, 2022, 5:00 PM

@Justin-Wagner said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

bin64/plugins

The correct path is bin64/plugins/Config/nppPluginList.dll

(For other readers of this topic who haven’t been following all conversations in the forum: this is related to a separate topic by the same user)

Justin Wagner · Nov 2, 2022, 6:09 PM

@PeterJones That’s where I currently have it, but I suspect I’m missing something else. If I don’t have the Plugins Admin option in the Plugins menu, will placing nppPluginList.dll in this location force it to appear, or do I somehow need to build notepad-plus-plus differently to begin with?

It seems to me like nppPluginList.dll feeds into the Plugins Admin dialog once it’s already enabled, but my issue is that I have nothing to click on to open that in the first place.

Alan Kilborn · Nov 2, 2022, 6:13 PM

@Justin-Wagner said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

I just cloned the latest notepad-plus-plus source code from git and built it successfully in VS2022

don’t have the Plugins Admin option in the Plugins menu

You didn’t ask for the smart-ass answer, but here it is: Step thru the code (in the relevant section, of course) and you should be able to see why it isn’t appearing. :-)

Justin Wagner · Nov 2, 2022, 6:16 PM

@Alan-Kilborn haha ok I’ll start digging in. I guess what I was mainly wanting to confirm is that it’s supposed to be there in the first place after doing a git clone and .NET build.

Alan Kilborn · Nov 2, 2022, 6:34 PM

@Justin-Wagner

So you’re probably doing the default build of the DEBUG version of Notepad++?

If so, that’s looking for the .json version of the the plugins list in order to determine if it should show Plugins Admin; see HERE.

As I said, since you apparently have the power, you can set a breakpoint and look at code there and see how it is looking for what/where.