Plugin Manager is a plugin for Notepad++ that allows you to install, update and remove plugins from the source lawmaking editor. A centrally hosted XML file holds the list of plugins, that the plugin manager downloads and processes against the list of installed plugins.

Features:

  • Install, Update and Remove all existing plugins
  • Notify when an installed plugin has an update available, and allow the user to update directly
  • Summate dependencies between plugins, any plugin tin can depend on another plugin, which will be installed automatically if the user installs the initial plugin
  • Install all supplemental files as well every bit the plugin file itself (e.g. config, md, extra libraries)
  • Automated installation of the right version (ANSI/Unicode) for your Notepad++
  • Validation of DLLs copied, against a central list of valid files. This slightly mitigates the adventure of automatically downloading updates.
  • Simply plugins that are uniform with your Notepad++ are shown
  • Plugins can exist put into categories - a proffer was made of "Official, Mutual and Others". Currently all plugins are in the "Others" category, equally I remember there needs to be some agreement as to what determines an "Official" plugin and which plugins are "Common".
  • Plugin Manager is able to update itself, and volition notify the user when an update is available
  • Proxies are supported, just modify the setting
  • Updates can exist ignored, and the user will not be alerted to that update again, until a farther new version of that plugin is released.
  • The local plugin listing file is only downloaded when something has inverse - the MD5sum of the file is compared to the server'due south version, and if it is different, then a new copy is downloaded.
  • New for 0.9: Works with plugins that are installed multiple times - update them all or individually

Installation:

To install the plugin managing director, but download the .zip, and identify the PluginManager.dll file in the Notepad++ plugins directory, and the gpup.exe in the updater directory under your Notepad++ programme directory. (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater")

In fact, if you adopt, you lot tin just add the PluginManager.dll to the plugins directory, and so practise a reinstall of Plugin Manager from the plugin itself, which will place the file in the right place! Of course, if you lot're already using an earlier version of the plugin manager, y'all'll exist able to just update from the update tab (or when you get the notification that the update has happened).

Additionally for the x64 version there is a Chocolatey package for nppPluginManager and so that information technology tin can be installed with one command for North++ installer version:

  • choco install notepadplusplus-nppPluginManager

What's New:

  • add prepare for issue #127 to support Due north++ vii.five.vii feature of plugin search in subdirs
  • updated appveyor.yml to use v140_xp and VM image VS2017
  • The _PA versions are just relevant for the update with the builtin PluginAdmin in North++ seven.half-dozen.x to give a limited back up for showing the currently installed plugins. A download is not possible without manual deportment, meet #126