Script Editor...What are you using?

[dniezby]

I'm wondering what people are using to code add-ons for NinjaTrader. Are you using the integrated Ninja Trader Editor? Do you use Visual Studio Code or a different Visual Studio

[bltdavid]

Well, as you know, NinjaTrader doesn't really care. I
mean, you can use Notepad, or Notepad++, or any other
external text editor.

Since I come from a Unix/Linux/FreeBSD background,
I know vim very well and so I really enjoy use gvim for
all my NinjaScript editing.

I typically keep an NT editor window open while using
gvim. That's because saving changes in gvim means
the NT editor automatically sees that change and will
automatically recompile everything for me.

This little trick only works if you have the NT editor open
while editing in an external editor -- when I found that out
I was pretty stoked, this NT8 feature is a great time saver.

So, yeah, I use the NinjaTrader editor all the time, I just
never use it for editing anything -- I use the editor window
only to see the error messages from the compiler.

Btw, I break out Visual Studio only for debugging, I don't
use it for editing. Frankly, I prefer using Prints and my
own output log for debugging -- I find Visual Studio a
rather heavy weight approach, and a judicious use of
Prints to uncover problems has never really failed me.

Just my 2˘.