Text Editors

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Verified: April 2020

When editing text files, it's critical to use an editor that maintains plain text UTF-8 format.

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⚠️ Do not use a word processor as it will add all sorts of garbage to the file.

Some example editors that we recommend:

• Atom (free, cross-platform)

• Brackets (free, Windows and Mac only)

• Notepad++ (free, Windows only)

• Sublime Text (paid, cross-platform)

• TextMate (free or paid, Mac only)

• Visual Studio Code (free, cross-platform)

These can be used to view and edit .txt, .md, .log, .csv, .xml and .cs files.

Note, however, they can't compile C# source code to DLLs — you'll need an IDE for that, see: Developer Tools