Context Menu howto :

Notepad++ context menu is the menu appears as right clicking on the edit zone :

User can change the context menu by adding/ modifying the file contextMenu.xml(which is located in your Notepad++ installed directory if you use zipped package, or in %APPDATA%\Notepad++\ if you install your Notepad++ by using the installer).

All the commands in menu are available being added in context menu, including the plugins' commands.

• To add a normal command you need to add the command menu item name as value of MenuItemName and its menu name as value of MenuEntryName.
• To add a plugin command you need to add the sub menu entry name of menu Plugins as value of PluginEntryName and its command menu item name as value of pluginCommandItemName.

This context menu HOWTO is made for the version 5 or later. For the version before v5, please check here for the old context menu HOWTO (For the sake of backward compatibility, id attribute will still work on the future release).