A Notepad++ Plugin that allows easy interface to be able to update the langs.xml, stylers.xml, and themes\ files, based on the most recent Notepad++ release, so that your syntax highlighting will always keep up with improvements.

When Notepad++ updates, it tends to avoid updating important things like langs.xml, stylers.xml, and your themes; it does this because it doesn't want to overwrite your customizations, but that has the drawback that you end up missing new styles, new languages, and updated keyword lists.

This plugin uses the langs.model.xml and stylers.model.xml which ship with every copy of Notepad++, and looks for any information that's in the model files, but not in your active config files. It will copy over that missing information; when you then restart Notepad++, the syntax highlighting and keyword lists will have been updated to include all the settings in your current Notepad++ version.

You can install the plugin using Notepad++'s Plugins Admin, or by unzipping the appropriate archive from the latest release, so that ConfigUpdater.dll ends up in the c:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\ConfigUpdater\ directory (or equivalent, for your installation's location). (The files in the docs\ folder from the zipfile could also be extracted into c:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\ConfigUpdater\docs\ directory, but that's not required).

Run Plugins > ConfigUpdater > Update Config Files to run the config-file updater. It will go through your AppData langs, stylers, and themes, and also go through any themes in your installation directory, and bring in the missing or updated syntax-highlighting settings from the new version, without losing any of your customizations. If your "normal" user doesn't have write permission for your installation directory (which often happens), it will ask if you want to restart Notepad++ in "elevated (UAC)" mode (aka, "As Admin" or "As Administrator") -- if you say yes, Notepad++ will be closed, and it will attempt to restart As Admin (Windows may prompt you for elevated UAC permissions); if you say no, it won't try to restart for that file, but it will ask you again if another file doesn't have write permission; if you cancel, the plugin will stop asking you to restart. If it restarts in elevated UAC mode, you will have to run Plugins > ConfigUpdater > Update Config Files again to restart the process. After it is done running, if you are in elevated UAC mode, it will ask if you want to restart Notepad++ normally (because it's not a good idea to keep Notepad++ running As Admin if you don't need it, since you can accidentally overwrite important system config files in that mode).

After your config files have been updated, you can exit Notepad++ and run it again, and the updated Languages and Style Configurator settings will be in effect.

• This plugin can be run after each time you upgrade to a new version of Notepad++, to keep your settings in sync with updates to the model versions that ship with Notepad++.

• This plugin will work whether you are using a normal Notepad++ installation using AppData for you settings, or whether you have chosen Cloud Directory for your settings, or are using the -settingsDir command-line option, or whether you are running a portable (doLocalConf.xml) version of Notepad++, and should search and update the files in the correct directories in any of those circumstances. (For it to do anything with a portable Notepad++, you have to make sure that you have copied the *.model.xml files from the new portable unzip into your active portable copy; if the *.model.xml aren't changed, ConfigUpdater won't know it has to update anything in your langs or stylers or themes.)