Can we use another source code editor?

I can’t buy Visual Studio or make the free version work and I hate it anyway. Can I use another editor like Code::Blocks or something else? When I want to change it in the Unreal options it only shows VS.

Common now, I only need a yes or a no

You can use whatever editor you like, I use Sublime Text sometimes, thus you will lose all the nicely integrated features that come with VS. VS 2013 community should be working without issues, 2015 is still not supported though.

Unreal uses it’s own tool to build the engine, so if you have at-least VS community installed you can use any text editor you like to develop. Unreals build tool is called UBT (Unreal Build Tool :D), if you run the Unreal Frontend and build from there you will see in the log the commands the Frontend calls to build, then you just have to call the same commands to compile your code.

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So to select different source editor, I need to build UE from the sources?.. %) Am I right? (that’s just sounds crazy for me…)