See my issue at this url:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24566/notepad-says-it-cannot-find-the/3?_=1687965416263
I previously posted a question and got some help, “https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24060/how-to-add-or-install-pork2sausage-to-notepad”, that I was not able to figure out how to use that help to fix the Pork2Sausage installation problem.
So, I uninstalled and reinstalled Notepad++.
Now, when I open Notepad++, I get a message telling me that “C:\Users\marc\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config\pork2Sausage.ini” is not present.
I did a search for files I thought are significant and found the following files:

C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\pork2sausage\pork2sausage.dll
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\pork2sausage\Config\pork2Sausage.ini
So, the pork2Sausage.ini file and the pork2sausage.dll are both present on my PC.

The page “https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/plugins/#install-plugin-manually” does not explain how to fix a plugin installation that did not get done right, which I think is what happened in my case.

Marc

### SOLUTION:
Peter Jones' gave me a solution (at the same URL) and I'm sharing his solution here so that you folks fix this problem so that other people don't have to struggle.

Here's peter's solution
PeterJones Jun 12, 2023, 8:23 PM
@Marc-Hankin ,

I ran some experiments. It had nothing to do with version, nor with whether it was local-config or AppData config, like I was originally thinking when I asked for the Debug Info.

Apparently, that plugin does not automatically install its config file when it gets installed, and instead just stores it in a subdirectory of the plugin’s installation directory.

You will want to exit the Notepad++ application; then copy C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\pork2sausage\Config\pork2Sausage.ini to C:\Users\marc\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config\pork2Sausage.ini; then restart Notepad++ – the error message should stop at this point, and Plugins > Pork to Sausage will now list some example converters, as well as a command to edit the User Commands. (Please note: unless you have an ancient version of java where Don had them, and have a working directory already created under Don’s personal user name, the default pork2sausage.ini commands will not work for you.)

Other readers of this topic: since your username is likely not marc, you should copy the source ini to %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\Config\pork2Sausage.ini, which uses the Windows OS Envioronment Variable %AppData% 🛈 to find the right hiearchy based on the active username and settings.

1. Replace Pork to sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].
2. Replace pass a with passes giving passes selected test [grammar].
3. Insert an between program as and input argument [grammar].
4. Replace by the result of with with the output from [grammar].

1. Replace the full path of the program to launch with The full path and name of the program to launch. [clarity].

1. Replace the whole command to call the program with The full command line required to invoke the program. [clarity].

1. Replace the path of working directory with The full path of the working directory. [clarity, grammar].

1. Replace The full path name with The full path and name [clarity].
2. Replace Pork to sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].

1. Replace the full path name with The full path and name [clarity].
2. Replace Pork to sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].
3. Replace replace selected text by with replace the selected text with [grammar].
4. Replace content of indicated with contents of the defined [grammar].
5. Remove supposed to be [clarity].
6. Replace Pork to sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].
7. Replace stdout of program with stdout of the program [grammar].

1. Replace $(TIMSTAMP) with $(TIMESTAMP) [error].
2. Replace the Timestamp with The timestamp [grammar].
3. Replace Pork to sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].
4. Replace on the bigining with at the beginning [grammar, spelling] or at the start [clarity].
5. Replace varible used with variable is used [spelling, grammar].
6. Replace Pork to sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].
7. Replace unicity of with uniqueness of the [clarity, grammar].

1. replace you program with your program [spelling].

Description

It is not possible to use environment variables or relative paths for the keys progPath and workDir in the configuration file. This is a problem especially when one wants to use a portable version of Notepad++. Moreover, to be able to use environment variables could be helpful when it comes to creating configurations that can be used for 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Notepad++.

Proposed Solution

Both issues can be solved easily by doing appropriate Win32 API calls. As the base path for relative paths used in the configuration file the plugins config dir could be used. This would be a reasonable solution and there already exists the NPPM_GETPLUGINSCONFIGDIR message in the Notepad++ plugin API to retrieve this path.

I have installed version 2.1 of this plugin in Notepad++ version 7.5.4 (64-bit).
When I check using Plugin Manager version 1.4.11, listed under the Installed tab there is a row with the following details:

• Plugin: Pork to Sausage
• Category: blank
• Installed Version: 2.1
• Stability: blank

and when I highlight the row or tick its check-box, this is displayed in the message box below:

Unknown plugin - please let us know about this plugin on the forums
Stability: 

If I then switch to the Available tab in Plugin Manager, the plugin is also listed here, as follows:

• Plugin: Pork2Sausage
• Category: others
• Available Version: 2.1
• Stability: Good

and highlighting the row or checking its box gives this in the message area:

Transforms selected text to through a transformer (a console program which takes inputs then generates output). Up to 20 transformers can be defined
Author: Don Ho
Source: https://github.com/npp-plugins/pork2sausage
Latest update: 16 Sep 2016 Remove the dependecy issue

I'm not sure whether this is a Plugin Manager issue, but the difference in the names of the plugin between the two tabs in Plugin Manager is worth noting.

Also, note the typo in the message that displays on the Available tab in Plugin Manager:
Transforms selected text to through ... should be simply Transforms selected text through ....

There are inconsistencies in the names used in reference to this plugin, as follows:

• the GitHub project is named pork2sausage
• the readme.txt file refers to it as Pork to Sausage
• in GitHub, both versions 1.0 and 2.0 use the name Pork2Sausage
• in GitHub, version 2.1 calls it Pork to Sausage
• the drop-down Plugins menu in Notepad++ uses the label Pork to Sausage
• in Notepad++, the Plugin Manager lists Pork2Sausage in the Available tab
• in Notepad++, the Plugin Manager lists Pork to Sausage in the Installed tab

Can these references (and any others I have missed) all be reconciled to a single consistent name? I suggest using Pork to Sausage for all references that are visible to the end-user, as this provides the most clarity.

When progOutput is set and replaceSelection=false, it would be useful to add a variable to load the output file.

It would be useful e. g. when one is using Notepad++ to build simple commands and don't actually want the selection to be overwritten, but still want to immediately view the output. More specifically, it would have been great when I used RegEx in Notepad++ to turn the output from some data fetched via REST API into a curl command for a new fetch.

The Plugin only reads 1024 bytes from the listener pipes to the program started by the the plugin.

I guess this is due to this codeblock in the routine to read from the pipe to StdOut of the started program. There is a similar code block here for reading the pipe to StdErr of the started program.

I installed Pork2sausage plug-in and decided to check how it goes along with Python. So, I created the following pork2sausage.ini file:
[Python]
progPath=C:\Users\Sergey\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe
progCmd=python $(SELECTION)
workDir=C:\Users\Sergey\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\

Should I select 3+2 and give command to make the sausage, I have got error message with text in Chinese, depicted at the screen-shot.

I would appreciate some one telling me what is wrong with my ini-file (really, I have no clue about it, everything seems to be correct) and what this message means.

@donho You may want to consider replacing the Chinese text with its English equivalent. And the last, but not the least, thank you very much for great text editor.

Since N++ 7.6 TextFX isn't supported even in 32-bit and I would really like to be able to use the insert timestamps feature (like standard Notepad). It works...but requires me to create a selection first, which slows progress quite a bit.

Would you please enable Pork2Sausage to work without an active selection?

I could see using this for other system-state or diagnostic information as well where the "pork" is coming from outside Notepad++.

Empty

When I select multiple lines, only the first line goes to the command in Windows. Tested this with two round-trip commands. Windows command prompt requires a special escape of multi-line commands. Wat do?

1. Replace java with Java [proper case].
2. Replace Pork2Sausage with Pork to Sausage [consistency].
3. Replace un Notepad++ plugin with a Notepad++ plugin [English].

1. Replace zip with zips [grammar].
2. Replace unzip with unzips [grammar].
3. Replace put with writes [grammar].