Toggle Markdown Viewer++ plugin on startup

BlitzCoder

Is there currently a way to toggle on or run the markdown viewer++ plugin on startup?

PeterJones

Notepad++ is not going to have a way to remember the exact state of every possible plugin; it is up to the plugins themselves to initialize themselves to a reasonable state when Notepad++ starts up.

You could ask the maintainer of Markdown Viewer++ to implement an option to have it show the panel on startup using the Markdown Viewer++ issues page … but it looks like the author hasn’t made any updates since 2018, so it’s not likely to happen. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. :-(

rdipardo

Notepad++ is not going to have a way to remember the exact state of every possible plugin . . .

Isn’t that what the “Docking Manager” is for? When a docked panel is left open at shutdown, Notepad++ saves the size and position in config.xml, for example:

<!-- %APPDATA%\Notepad++\config.xml -->
<NotepadPlus>
    <GUIConfigs>
        <!-- . .  . -->
        <GUIConfig name="DockingManager" leftWidth="200" rightWidth="200" topHeight="200" bottomHeight="200">
            <PluginDlg pluginName="NppMarkdownPanel" id="1" curr="1" prev="-1" isVisible="yes" />
            <PluginDlg pluginName="JSMinNPP.dll" id="0" curr="0" prev="-1" isVisible="yes" />        
            <PluginDlg pluginName="dbgpPlugin.dll" id="0" curr="3" prev="-1" isVisible="no" />
            <ActiveTabs cont="0" activeTab="0" />
            <ActiveTabs cont="1" activeTab="-1" />
            <ActiveTabs cont="2" activeTab="-1" />
            <ActiveTabs cont="3" activeTab="-1" />
        </GUIConfig>
    </GUIConfigs>
</NotepadPlus>

I’m not sure when it became a feature, but the latest version automatically displays every panel whose isVisible attribute is set to "yes" at application startup.

BlitzCoder

@PeterJones No worries and yes, it seems that the plugin is no longer maintained.

I see there’s the almost forked version Markdown Panel which still is and recent update is last month.

BlitzCoder

@rdipardo Thanks for the tip, but it seems to have no effect if I set it to isVisible=yes

I’m using the latest version 8.4.3

rdipardo

Sorry to mislead you. What I described seems to be true for portable versions only. (Look for Local Conf mode : ON in the dialog at ? > Debug Info.)

Even then, only certain plugins respond to the isVisible attribute. Among the few I tried, DBGp consistently does it — annoyingly, since it opens a TCP socket at the same time.

BlitzCoder

@rdipardo Yes, I’m also using the portable version.

Noted on that, will look into this more. Thanks again for the add. info.