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Using an external text editor with Dreamweaver

You can launch your primary external text editor from Dreamweaver to edit the source HTML for the current document and then switch back to Dreamweaver to continue editing graphically. Dreamweaver detects any changes that have been saved to the document externally and prompts you to reload the document upon returning.

If you use BBEdit on the Macintosh, follow the steps in Using BBEdit with Dreamweaver (Macintosh only) instead of the following steps.

To set up external editors for file types other than text and HTML, see Launching an external editor.

To choose an external HTML editor:

1	Choose Edit > Preferences, and select File Types/Editors.
2	(Macintosh only) To use an HTML editor other than BBEdit, deselect the Enable BBEdit Integration option. To use BBEdit, leave Enable BBEdit Integration selected and skip the rest of these steps.
3	Click the Browse button next to the External Code Editor box to choose a text editor.
4	In the Reload Modified Files option, specify what you want Dreamweaver to do when it detects that changes have been made externally to a document that is open in Dreamweaver.
5	In the Save on Launch option, specify whether Dreamweaver should always save the current document before launching the editor, never save the document, or prompt you to ask whether to save or not each time you launch the external editor.

To launch the external HTML editor:

Choose Edit > Edit with (editor name).