External Editor

The editor available for creating ESDL is limited and can only carry out simple operations. Another way of creating code is to select a user-defined external editor (e.g. VS Code, Codewright, etc.). As the external editor is connected via a file system, files with the suffixes *.c and *.h must be associated with the editor in the Windows configuration. Without this association, the external editor cannot be opened from ASCET. If you try, an error message indicates that the association is missing.

After using the button for the external editor, the view of the ESDL editor is changed; see External Editor View (ESDL Editor).

When the external editor is opened, the code for a method or a process is written to one or more files which are stored in a temporary directory. See Using an External Editorfor details on using an external editor from within ASCET.

Code changes made in the external editor after you ended the external editor mode cannot be returned to ASCET. If you need to re-edit the code, you must call the external editor from the ASCET environment again.

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In order to return code changes made in the external editor to the ASCET environment, you must save the code in the external editor first.