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Q402: I want to use an external editor to edit my scripts. How can this be done?

A402 There are multiple possible ways:

• Chrome (and derivates users) can export and @require the local copy
  • Open Tampermonkey's dashboard, open the script and copy its content.
  • Create a local file and paste the content
  • Remove all content from the script inside Tampermonkey except the "UserScript" header
  • Add a @require tag with the path to the local file that you want to include in the script. For example, if the file is located at C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\myscript.js, you would add the following line to the script:

    // @require       file://C:/Users/[USERNAME]/Documents/myscript.js
    

  • Finally enable local file access.
• You can try TamperDAV
• You can try the Tampermonkey Editors extension to edit the script at vscode.dev