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December 2, 2017 - 4:26am
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Plugins, Auto-completions and User Defined Languages location in Notepad++

Hi,

Thank you for all the work you put into this software. I am coming from a standard Notepad++ installation and I want to install some Plugins, Auto-completions and User Defined Languages in my new portable installation.

Regarding plugins, there are three possible folders:

\Notepad++Portable\Data\Config\plugins\
\Notepad++Portable\App\DefaultData\Config\plugins\
\Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++\plugins\

About User Defined Languages, I see that my original installation puts them in the root folder. Again, I see 2 possible folders:

\Notepad++Portable\Data\Config\
\Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++\

Auto-completions seem more straight-forward but I may be missing something:

\Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++\plugins\APIs\

Which of those folders would be the best/correct option and why?

Thanks!

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December 2, 2017 - 6:49am
Gord Caswell
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Data

Anything under the \Data\ directory is always the preferred location.

With regards to auto-completions, the location you've indicated is correct.

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December 2, 2017 - 9:33am
John T. Haller
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Plugins

The location to store the actual plugins in is \Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++\plugins\. For the others, \Notepad++Portable\App\DefaultData\Config\plugins\ is, appropriately, where the default plugins config is stored and \Notepad++Portable\Data\Config\plugins\ is where your current plugins settings are stored between sessions of the app so they can be easily backed up.

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December 2, 2017 - 11:57am
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Hi,

According to my tests the \Data\Config\plugins\ directory is not copied during runtime (so plugins added there are not available). However, its config subdirectory is copied. So based on my testing and what John said here are my conclusions:

Plugin .dll/binary files should be copied to \App\Notepad++\plugins\
Plugin .ini/settings files should be copied to \Data\Config\plugins\config\
Auto-complete files should be copied to \App\Notepad++\plugins\APIs\
Unsaved/dirty file contents get saved to \App\Notepad++\backup\

All other settings should get usually saved in \Data\Config\. For example:
User preferences: \Data\Config\config.xml
Context menu: \Data\Config\contextMenu.xml
Session (opened documents): \Data\Config\session.xml
Macros: \Data\Config\shortcuts.xml
User-defined languages: \Data\Config\userDefineLang.xml

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