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    • donhoD
      donho
      last edited by donho

      Notepad++ 7.6.1 is out there.

      In version 7.6.1, Plugins Admin is enhanced on several aspects. However, the enhancement could bring some plugins issues for people who update their Notepad++, due to the new location for plugins. Sorry for the inconvenient.

      In order to remedy this problem, after the update, if you update from 7.6 :
      Move all %LOCALAPPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\ (except “Config” folder) to %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\plugins.

      Otherwise, you update from v7.5.9 or version older than v7.5.9:
      Find the name of plugin you want to migrate in %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin.dll (or %PROGRAMFILES%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin.dll, according the achetecture of your Notepad++).
      go to %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\ to create myAwesomePlugin folder.
      move the plungin myAwesomePlugin.dll from %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\ to %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin.

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      • pnedevP
        pnedev
        last edited by

        Hi @donho ,

        After install the plugins sub-folder is still created in Notepad++ install folder. This is not needed anymore.

        As far as I remember, you mentioned adding SHA computing functionality next to the MD5 in the Tools sub-menu (now that the Plugin Admin validates the plugins by SHA). Am I mistaken?

        Thank you.

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        • dinkumoilD
          dinkumoil
          last edited by

          There is a known bug in the unzipping code for plugin ZIP packages. If a plugin comes with companion files, plugin installer GUP.exe may produce 0-byte files when unzipping them. Affected plugins may fail to work.

          See here, here and here.

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          • donhoD
            donho @pnedev
            last edited by

            @pnedev said:

            After install the plugins sub-folder is still created in Notepad++ install folder. This is not needed anymore.

            Which one? Could you provide me the path please?

            As far as I remember, you mentioned adding SHA computing functionality next to the MD5 in the Tools sub-menu (now that the Plugin Admin validates the plugins by SHA). Am I mistaken?

            Yes indeed. I’m implement it. It’ll be in the next version.

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            • donhoD
              donho @dinkumoil
              last edited by

              @dinkumoil said:

              There is a known bug in the unzipping code for plugin ZIP packages. If a plugin comes with companion files, plugin installer GUP.exe may produce 0-byte files when unzipping them. Affected plugins may fail to work.

              See here, here and here.

              It’ll be fixed in the next release. Thank you for the heads up.

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              • pnedevP
                pnedev
                last edited by pnedev

                @donho said:

                Which one? Could you provide me the path please?

                Yes, %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\plugins is the path. It contains only the disabled sub-folder.
                This was the plugins location in versions prior 7.6.

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                • Meta ChuhM
                  Meta Chuh moderator @pnedev
                  last edited by

                  @pnedev
                  in my case C:\Applications\Notepad++\plugins
                  (default install but custom location)
                  also contains the APIs folder containing c.xml and all others.
                  where is your APIs folder located ?

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                  • Meta ChuhM
                    Meta Chuh moderator
                    last edited by

                    i’ve just tested a fresh install and all looks normal to me:

                    autoCompletion.nsh puts APIs into “$INSTDIR\plugins\APIs” (if autocomplete is not deselected when installing notepad++)

                    and AutoCompletion.cpp expects APIs there.

                    i personally don’t mind at all that the base folder for APIs is called plugins like it is now.

                    i would leave this as it is unless anyone really wants to clean up a lot more than just using a different folder name for $INSTDIR\plugins\APIs, except if everyone is willing to do a fresh install and to do a manual migration of their custom APIs if they have some.

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                    • dinkumoilD
                      dinkumoil
                      last edited by

                      @donho

                      I have tested an update installation from v7.5.9 (32 bit) to v7.6.1 (32 bit) (local installation in directory %ProgramFiles(x86)%).

                      The installer of Notepad++ seems to have a hard-coded list of plugins which are considered to be unstable. One plugin on this list is the HEX-Editor plugin. The installer of v7.6.1 still moves it to <Notepad++-installation-folder>\plugins\disabled. This should be changed to the location where plugins are actually stored, particularly because the directory <Notepad++-installation-folder>\plugins will be removed in the future.

                      In general it’s the question if this hard coded plugin list is useful. I use the HEX-Editor plugin with my productive v7.5.6 installation and I’m not facing any problems.

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                      • pnedevP
                        pnedev
                        last edited by

                        @donho , @Meta-Chuh ,

                        I understand now, thanks to @Meta-Chuh ’ s post.

                        During install I disable Autocompletion in the installer so the APIs are not installed.
                        I didn’t know those were put in plugins sub-folder as well. Now it makes sense why the plugins sub-folder is still in Notepad++ install folder.
                        I would prefer though to have
                        %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\APIs
                        instead of
                        %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\APIs
                        and remove
                        %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins altogether.
                        This helps avoid confusion in the future as plugins are not going to live anymore in Notepad++'s install folder (excluding here the portable variant).

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                        • dinkumoilD
                          dinkumoil
                          last edited by dinkumoil

                          @donho @Meta-Chuh @pnedev

                          Regarding APIs directory: As far as I know there are plugins wich are indeed lexers for a certain language. I actually found the WLangLexer which is part of the plugin list of old Plugin Manager. This plugin requests during its installation to copy an XML file to plugins\APIs.

                          I don’t use lexer plugins, thus I don’t know anything about them. But I think further investigations have to be done before making a decision regarding plugins and plugins\APIs directories.

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                          • pnedevP
                            pnedev
                            last edited by

                            Good point @dinkumoil ,
                            I don’t use additional lexers and missed that subtlety totally.

                            @donho ,

                            I just tried installing SessionManager plugin through 7.6.1 Plugin Admin - Notepad++ restarted but the plugin did not install. There wasn’t any notification about that failure. I believe we need to have some kind of status on plugin’s install - success, fail, progress…

                            Do you guys experience the same or it is again due to me using Wine?

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                            • pnedevP
                              pnedev
                              last edited by pnedev

                              BTW, SessionMgr-1.4.2-plugin.zip stays as zero-bytes file in my user’s Temp folder after the installation fail. We should remove the plugin’s zip after the fail as well @donho .

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                              • pnedevP
                                pnedev
                                last edited by

                                @donho , @dinkumoil , @Meta-Chuh ,

                                Perhaps the APIs sub-folder needs to be located also in %PROGRAMDATA% :
                                %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\APIs
                                instead of
                                %PROGRAMFILES%\Notepad++\plugins\APIs
                                because of what @dinkumoil just pointed above - some lexer plugins might want to add some files to APIs as well.

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                                • dinkumoilD
                                  dinkumoil
                                  last edited by

                                  @pnedev

                                  I miss installation progress too and when a plugin installation/update failed I was facing error messages that stated the wrong reason for that.

                                  I already requested user feedback some weeks ago (see here). And @SinghRajenM has put some effort in writing code that extends GUP.exe to do so (see here and here). But for what ever reasons these PRs have been closed.

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                                  • dinkumoilD
                                    dinkumoil
                                    last edited by

                                    @pnedev

                                    We should remove the plugin’s zip after the fail as well @donho .

                                    No! Gup.exe should be fixed. The plugin is the victim and not the cause of this error.

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                                    • pnedevP
                                      pnedev
                                      last edited by

                                      @dinkumoil said:

                                      … I was facing error messages that stated the wrong reason for that.

                                      I assume Wine is the reason why I don’t get the error notifications then, thanks.

                                      No! Gup.exe should be fixed. …

                                      OK, it is perhaps this post of yours.

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                                      • Meta ChuhM
                                        Meta Chuh moderator @pnedev
                                        last edited by

                                        @pnedev

                                        I would prefer though to have
                                        %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\APIs
                                        instead of
                                        %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\APIs

                                        it would be a cleaner, more logical structure, but at the moment there are many scenarios where it can break a functionality if you update an older installation, if they are not considered prior to coding the path changes, and i guess this means a lot of coding work for a cleanup which few people will ever notice or appreciate.

                                        BTW, SessionMgr-1.4.2-plugin.zip stays as zero-bytes file in my user’s Temp folder after the installation fail.

                                        it installs fine for me, but it is missing the menu title on both windows and osx.
                                        alt

                                        @donho
                                        thanks again for the wine path and installer mods, all works like a charm so far. 👍

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                                        • pnedevP
                                          pnedev
                                          last edited by

                                          @Meta-Chuh said:

                                          it installs fine for me, but it is missing the menu title on both windows and osx.

                                          It is Session Manager’s known issue that is fixed but not officially merged.

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                                          • graphixillusionG
                                            graphixillusion
                                            last edited by

                                            I’m trying the new version, the portable one, but i can’t see the plugin manager anywhere. Any clue?

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