- You have opened a project. Utilities > Edit properties externally > Settings (<...>) Select the General tab. In the File type drop-down list, select one of the "Tab-delimited text", "Tab-delimited Unicode file (*.txt)", or "XML file (*.edc)" entries and click [Options].
- Options > Settings > User > Interfaces > External editing(<...>) Select the General tab. In the File type drop-down list, select one of the "Tab-delimited text", "Tab-delimited Unicode file (*.txt)", or "XML file (*.edc)" entries and click [Options].
In this dialog, you can specify the settings for external editing of pages, functions, or connections in a text editor.
Overview of the main dialog elements:
Enter the name (including the drive and directory) here for the format of the application to be used, or click [...] to select the program interactively.
Using Popup menu > Insert path variable you branch to the Select path variable dialog where you can select one of the available EPLAN-specific path variables.