# Coming in 8.1.18: Script editor improvements

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 16, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/coming-in-8-1-18-script-editor-improvements/59629 "2022-05-16T18:39:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/coming-in-8-1-18-script-editor-improvements/59629/63 "2022-09-02T04:10:47Z")

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> [@Any news about script editor improvments?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-news-about-script-editor-improvments/53970/6):
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> I would _love_ to make the designer an [LSP](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) _client_, which would allow offloading a lot of tasks to external editors; but to do that we’d have to push designer-local resources to disk somewhere, and there’s some tricky complications there.
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> Similar complications exist for pushing files to disk and opening in external editors; in addition, opening an external editor such as VS Code wouldn’t work perfectly without some doing because: 1. you wouldn’t have your project scripts in the right spots, and 2. you wouldn’t have autocompletion for any system functions, and 3. you wouldn’t have autocompletion for any Java libraries.  
> Doing that properly might require the designer acting as an LSP **server** , which is also a big task.

Here is a technical answer to _how_ it would be done, though it doesn’t really call out if it’s on the docket. I would have to assume it’s sadly pretty far out. We are talking about practices that are likely the future of the product, but the team at IA are probably focused on the problems of today before that of tomorrow. Don’t get me wrong, this type of feature would revolutionize the platform, and I would be the first to adopt it. However It’s probably a ways out, unless there are some  
Module dev gurus willing to take on the challenge of making this a module feature, if a module can even handle it.

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