Instead of using regular Notepad, I highly recommend Notepad++
+1 for SublimeText , has been my main editor for years
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Yes, the world is divided between users of Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code. They are both excellent. Only one is free, however.
And re:old school. There are no old school text editors that do syntax highlighting for JSON, you need a programmer’s editor for that. All the ones mentioned above are trivially easy to use for this. file open / type / save.
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i keep switching between vim (talk about old school…) and atom, both of which are free and open source, just like vcv rack 
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Just had a quick look at Code, so far so impressed, thanks.
emacs. steep learning curve. does everything, once you learn how.
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same here ! I’m at university, and i tend to have a very terminal oriented workflow, where vim is my editor. However, for big projets with tons of libraries i gotta keep going to, or when i correct code after compilation, i use a terminal on one side of the screen, a tiny firefox window under, and the rest of the screen is an instance of atom with all the .c and .h files open 
TLDR: Young student here, uses Vim and Atom like Ablaut 
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Xcode and visual studio code on mac
VSC on win
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I prefer VS Code Insiders on Mac. MacDown is excellent for writing markdown content.
Now that I think about it the editor i used to use a lot with Python was whatever came free with Ruby at the time (many years ago now).
I use one of the markdown plugins in vs code. It’s not the best thing in the world, but T-shirt good enough for me.
Loving VS Code now Just add the rack sdk directory and all of a sudden auto-complete everything / lookup definitions etc etc I used the pro VS for many years but that was a loooong time ago, good to have intellisense back and better than I remember it. Any tips from seasoned users welcome.
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Tried to get into (neo)vim on a number of occasions. Settled on VSCode a couple years ago and use it for everything (write grants for work). I’m interested in the browser implementation MS is working on, haven’t checked in on the project in a while.
How do you do that Ewen? Sorry if it’s a dumb question.
Notepad++ is nice, but for a text editor alone VSC is way nice/better. VSC is also a pretty good IDE but not my preferred IDE.
I agree, it seems better, and it sure it lighter and faster.
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Was a while ago, I think it was as simple as adding your Rack-SDK directory to folders in your code-workspace file, there may’ve been more to it, can’t remember :
"folders": [
{
"path": "."
},
{
"path": "/home/ewen/Rack-SDK"
}
],
This guide on setting up debugging includes the steps for configuring intellisense:
From this thread:
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