Notepad++ with Plugin manager
Notepad++ recently removed the plugin manager and to get it back you need to paste in these files: https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/releases
I know this can be worked around by creating another package to deploy the plugin manager files from github, but it would be nice if there was a version in PDQ Deploy Package manager that included the Plugin manager.
Nate
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Hey Nate, thanks for the info. I just put this into our internal package request tracker. We'll look into adding this in the future.
This has turned into a very complicated issue and has caused a lot of debate. First off, plugin manager is gone as the developers discovered ads in the plugin manager so it was replaced with plugins admin. Next, in order to use the plugins admin, Notepad++ must be installed as the user. Otherwise, the plugins admin is missing from the application and you become stranded.
I have installed this using PDQ Deploy and tried running the application as the admin account we use to install software in PDQ Deploy but the plugins admin is still missing so this is going to be a problem until the developers at Notepad++ figure this out.
More updates......
As part of the European bug bounty program, Notepad++ has released a new version. They had migrated the plugins to the %PROGRAMDATA% directory but have since moved it back to %PROGRAMFILES%\plugins folder as a fix to a bug found in the aforementioned program. The problem with the plugins admin still exists as any push install renders plugins admin unusable by the end user. Even when changing the install options to run as logged on user and not to install unless someone is logged on, the plugins admin does not appear in the application. Again, this is not a PDQ problem but a problem with the application.