#### MarsEdit Help | Solutions By Topic | Q&A

# Using an External Editor

MarsEdit can integrate with an external editor, so that you can use MarsEdit’s web-publishing features, while working in the familiar environment of another editor.

To choose the editor you would like to use:

1. Open the Preferences window and click the Editor tab.
2. Choose your preferred editor from the “Edit with” editor popup menu.

Once you have selected an editor, you will find a custom menu item in the File menu. For example, if you selected BBEdit as the external editor, you will find a File > Edit With BBEdit item in the menu. To edit a blog post using your chosen editor, first open the post, then select the menu item. When you save and close the document in the external editor, MarsEdit will update the post’s content with your changes.

At this time MarsEdit’s editor integration is limited to BBEdit and TextWrangler, both from Bare Bones Software. Support for many editors has ended because of security changes about how apps may interact with one another on the Mac. We will look for alternative solutions to integrate with other editors in the future.