Elastic Tabstops plugin disappeared

Steven Brown

I had Elastic Tabstops installed, and it’s been missing from my installed plugins for at least the last few weeks. It also doesn’t seem to be in the plugin admin available list, and I haven’t been able to find anything about its status in Notepad++. Is there something I need to/can do to get it back?

Debug info:

Notepad++ v8.3.3   (64-bit)
Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit) 
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19044.1706
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : CodeAlignmentNpp.dll ComparePlugin.dll CSVLint.dll IndentByFold.dll jN.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll urlPlugin.dll XMLTools.dll

PeterJones

@steven-brown ,

Elastic Tabstops has not released a version that is compatible with Notepad++ v8.3-and-newer, so Notepad++ disables the known-incompatible plugin in the new version.

There is a bug report issue with ElasticTabstops repo. Looking at their commit history, Dail appears to be actively working on getting through the last checks and releasing a new version.

You can watch the releases page for the new version, and when it’s released, you can download the new version, exit Notepad++, overwrite C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\ElasticTabstops\ElasticTabstops.dll, and re-run Notepad++, and you will have the newer version when.