Using external text editors with modx?

Hello!

Is it possible to use external editors like sublime text with modx?

For example I have a lot of snippets/auto completes/short cuts/live reload that I use from sublime text that literally 10x's my work speed.

The last time I used mod x it seemed like I was limited to your internal code editor. As I was coding it felt like pulling teeth because I didn't have my toolkit of snippets/etc

I've been doing research and that still seems to be the case?

Do modx developer normally just develop in the internal code editor?

I develop on a localhost install with PhpStorm. You can make the snippet static and edit the file or you can do this in the snippet in the Manager:



For a remote site, I usually write the code in PhpStorm and then cut-and-paste it to the remote site, though you can use the technique above and use the FTP engine built into your editor to move the file.

I use Sublime Text.

I disable all sorts of cache in MODX settings.

I make the HTML Templates static

And for PHP in plugins, I use the above mentioned line, to prevent any sort of kind of caching whatsoever

Nowadays I do all my work on localhost.

But if I do dangerously edit a remote site, my awesome and best (S)FTP client, WinSCP, can map local to remote folders for ya.
There is Sublime SFTP as well. But nothing beats WinSCP.