advice on external text editor

What is a good text editor?
Sublime is really 80$ ?
Notepad is compromised by hackers ?
having trouble getting Atom to launch due to the hidden way it installs.

notepad ++?

I use Sublime, as it is, well, sublime.

Pycharm is excellent.

I use Notepad++ I just use it for Python in Touch, so I didn’t really need anything fancy. I don’t think it includes GLSL, though, so if you’re doing that you’re just gonna get plain text which is not ideal.

thanks all. I meant to say ‘notepad++ is compormised by hackers?’ but I guess that hole has been patched.

atom.io

Don’t forget to use the custom TouchDesigner GLSL syntax highlighting package! It installs user area instead of ‘Program Files’ if I am not mistaken. If you have problems recommend uninstall - reinstall.

atom gets installed into
\AppData\Local\atom

I use that path for external editor

then Touchdesigner wont launch it. i get ‘error opening editor’ .

I actually would recommend Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It’s free and works very well. I have tried both Sublime and Atom, and have moved over to Code.