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    • Dominique LavarenneD
      Dominique Lavarenne
      last edited by

      Hello all!

      About a month ago, I asked you to know how to put in the menu bar of NotePad ++ the TextFX menu, disappeared since the transition to version 7.6.

      Gurikbal Singh gave me the solution in his answer here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16629/notepad-7-6-and-the-plugin-textfx/11

      Unfortunately, when I installed version 7.6.1 today, I lost the TextFX menu again. Where is the error?

      I thank you in advance for helping me out…

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      • dinkumoilD
        dinkumoil
        last edited by

        @Dominique-Lavarenne

        The location for storing plugins has been changed once more. Have a look at this and this posting to fix that.

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        • Dominique LavarenneD
          Dominique Lavarenne
          last edited by

          It’s annoying, these changes…
          But thanks dinkumoil, it works!

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          • rinku singhR
            rinku singh @Dominique Lavarenne
            last edited by

            @Dominique-Lavarenne said:

            Hello all!

            About a month ago, I asked you to know how to put in the menu bar of NotePad ++ the TextFX menu, disappeared since the transition to version 7.6.

            Gurikbal Singh gave me the solution in his answer here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16629/notepad-7-6-and-the-plugin-textfx/11

            Unfortunately, when I installed version 7.6.1 today, I lost the TextFX menu again. Where is the error?

            I thank you in advance for helping me out…

            “C:\ProgramData\Notepad++\plugins\NppTextFX\NppTextFX.DLL”

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            • MonarchXM
              MonarchX
              last edited by

              I got the 64bit plugin to show up, but it doesn’t do anything. CSV files are displays separated by commas, not tabs or equal-spaces. The TextFX Lineup Multiple Files by (,) does nothing, doesn’t work.

              How can it be that there are no free tools that can display this format correctly for editing, aside from OpenOffice???

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @MonarchX
                last edited by

                @MonarchX

                CSV files are displays separated by commas…How can it be that there are no free tools that can display this format correctly for editing

                Okay, so Notepad++ is a text editor. A CSV file is a text file that has commas in it as textual characters. So when you open it with Notepad++, you see commas. Notepad++ is displaying it correctly for editing, as far as it is chartered to do.

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                • PeterJonesP
                  PeterJones
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                  @MonarchX ,

                  As @Alan-Kilborn said, Notepad++ is a text editor: it allows you to edit the source text of the CSV just fine.

                  But if you want a free spreadsheet-like program for editing a CSV, how about trying a free spreadsheet program, like LibreOffice or OpenOffice?

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                  • Dominique LavarenneD
                    Dominique Lavarenne
                    last edited by

                    Hi !
                    With version 7.6.2 (at the beginning of the month), I had to install the TextFX.dll in C: \ ProgramData \ Notepad ++ \ plugins \ NppTextFX \ NppTextFX.DLL
                    I just installed version 7.6.3, and the TextFX menu has disappeared again! Is this a joke of Notepad ++ developers?
                    Can I ask again where this DLL should be installed now?
                    Thanks in advance…

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                    • PeterJonesP
                      PeterJones
                      last edited by

                      It’s not a joke, though it can be annoying to end users. The developer has been changing the plugin structure starting 7.6.0, and it’s been in a state of flux, while new issues are found and others are solved; each of the 7.6.x minor revisions have had a plugin change of some sort.

                      For 7.6.3, you need to put that DLL in the ...\plugins\NppTextFX\NppTextFX.dll (where ...\ is the path to the same folder as your executable. So assume you still use 32-bit NPP on a 64-bit OS, your DLL will go in c:\program files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\NppTextFX\NppTextFX.dll.

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                      • Dominique LavarenneD
                        Dominique Lavarenne
                        last edited by

                        Perfect! My problem is once again solved, thanks to you …

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                        • Joe Bruns75J
                          Joe Bruns75
                          last edited by Joe Bruns75

                          It seems silly that the developer cannot make the NppTextFX directory and then copy in the required file(s) before starting NP++ back up after the user has told NP++ plugin manager to install TextFx.

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                          • Meta ChuhM
                            Meta Chuh moderator @Joe Bruns75
                            last edited by

                            @Joe-Bruns75

                            It seems silly that the developer cannot make the NppTextFX directory and then copy in the required file(s) before starting NP++ back up after the user has told NP++ plugin manager to install TextFx.

                            yes, you are correct.

                            but unfortunately plugin manager is an external project and not part of notepad++.
                            you will have to report this problem to it’s developer here:
                            https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/issues

                            it is however recommended not to use “plugin manager” anymore.
                            please use the official built in “plugins admin” instead, as it will automatically create the necessary sub folders.

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                            • David LeighD
                              David Leigh
                              last edited by

                              The folder solution helped me and also for the “RunMe” plugin. It had also disappeared and after creating its folder and putting the dll in it, it reappeared! Thank you!

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