boxes/pages/editors.md

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title: Editor Integration
permalink: editors.html
redirect_from:
  - /docs/install.html
  - /docs/install.shtml
created_at: 1999-04-06
last_modified_at: 2021-08-15 00:10:51 +0800
---

# Text Editor Integration

*Boxes* can be called directly from most editors. The editor must support [filters]({{ site.baseurl}}/filters.html),
which basically means it must be able to pass some selected text to an external program (*boxes*), and replace it
afterwards with the output of the external program. Most editors can do that.

Currently, we have concrete instructions on how to integrate *boxes* with the following text editors:

### Emacs

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-emacs.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/emacs-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="150" height="187" alt="Emacs" /></a>


### Geany

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-geany.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/geany-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="120" height="120" alt="Geany" /></a>


### JED

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-jed.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/jed-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="183" height="100" alt="JED" /></a>


### Notepad++

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-notepadplusplus.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/notepadplusplus-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="289" height="120" alt="Notepad++" /></a>


### Sublime Text

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-sublime.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/sublimetext-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="512" height="60" alt="Sublime Text" /></a>


### Vim

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-vim.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/vim-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="110" height="110" alt="Vim" /></a>


### Visual Studio Code

<a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/editors-vscode.html"><img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/vscode-logo.png"
   class="img-fluid ml-lg-5" width="100" height="100" alt="VSCode" /></a>


Let us know if you have a recipe of how to do this for another text editor! You can add to this page via GitHub or just
let us know in the GitHub issues.