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CCS v4: Usage of an external editor

Andreas Goergner
Intellectual 1025 points

Dear Champs,

Is it possible to use an external editor in CCS v4, and, if yes, where can I find the setup for this?

 

Thanks!

Best regards,

Andreas

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    TI__Guru**** 481791 points

    Hi Andreas, 

    You can use standard Eclipse method for setting up editor file associations (Window->Preferences->General->Editors->File Associations). In the example below, I have added my external editor of choice (PSPad) to be the default editor when I open a *.c file. After you Add your external editor, don't forget to make it the default with the "Default" button. CCS will use the default editor when you double-click on a file in the Projects view.

    Thanks

    ki

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    TI__Intellectual 1025 points

    Thanks Ki!

    Regards,

    Andreas

  • 0 in reply to Andreas Goergner
    TI__Guru**** 171729 points

    Andreas,

    In addition to completely replacing the editor that may make you lose some of the IDE integration features (I particularly find the outlook pane very useful for large projects) you may want to search around the internet for plug-ins to the Eclipse environment.

    I found one that is particularly useful and is called AnyEdit (http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/), which adds some useful capabilities to the built-in editor, like Save All opened files, convert tabs to spaces, make block indentations, etc.

    Another tool called Pathtools (description here and download here) still allows opening a given file into an external editor through right-clicking, while adding some additional features.

    Just make sure you download the plug-ins for Eclipse version 3.2 (others are incompatible). The first can be downloaded via an update site (check here on how to add an update feature site) and the second is downloaded directly to C:\Program Files\Texas Instruments\ccsv4\eclipse\plugins

    Hope this helps,

    Rafael