

Plugins in user's AppData directory are disabled - to enable in Notepad++ version 5.9.7 onwards place an empty file called allowAppDataPlugins.xml in the Notepad++ directory.Īnyway, to get around the error above, I used the technique above instead. On the "Plugin Manager" dialog when I press "Settings" I see this message: Plugin Config path is:Ĭ:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config Installation of TextFX Characters failed. select TextFX, press Install)Ī dialog appears showing download progress from a url starting with: ""īut then it errors with:. Notepad++ installed on: PROGRAMFILESNotepad++ or wherever without doLocalConf. Trying to install TextFX through the plugin manager (Plugins | PLugin Manager | Find available. This table should clarify the location of Notepad++s plugins. Use the technique above, as the following leads nowhere: When I restart Notepad++ as non admin I still have the "TextFX" menu, so the plugin has worked. I then exit Notepad++ so I'm no longer running as administrator.

Within NotePad++ choose "Settings" | "Import" | "Import plugin(s)." and import the. Stop notepad++, and Run Notepad++ as admin I download and unzip C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads\TextFX.v0.26.unicode.bin Go onto SourceForge and tracked down the latest TextFX file to import manually: To get VAssist to work, add the extensions “.fx. Put a usertype.dat in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE, something like this (there might be better ones): In Visual Studio Tools/Options/Text Editor/File Extensions select Visual C++ as the editor and add fx, cgfx, etc as extensions. Go to Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager Select the Available tab Wait for the list to refresh (might take a minute or two).

Anyone have a solution? I’m not willing to give up the feature for my c++ coding, so I live with it. The only bug I haven’t been able to fix is that typing swizzles like v.x and similar will always autocomplete to v->x and is a pain to fix manually. How to Move Notepad ++ to New Computer Manually After you install Notepad++ on your computer, all the configurations will be saved in C:UsersUserNameAppData. Having “go to definition”, autocomplete, and everything else work is huge! My shaders are in my game solution, so everything’s easy to search together with my c++ code, and within reach without switching editors. That solved the problem - removing the DSPELL plugin. But with the word SPELL appearing in both the problem and the plugin I was still suspicious and tried removing the DSPELL plugin. My favorite IDE for shaders is Visual Studio + Visual Assist. Today I noticed that there was a new version of a plugin called DSpell so I installed that.
