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Better text editor for M?
I find myself a lot doing modifications to daatasets via Advanced Editor and using M-Language a lot. However, Advanced Editor in Desktop client is somewhat lacking. My background is software develo...
DOn't think there is anything "out of the box" but this might help:
https://ssbi-blog.de/technical-topics-english/power-query-editor-using-notepad/
I have used both and I have them useful as a scratch pad to quickly make changes to M code however as they are not connected to any other queries you have in Power BI it is of limited use. I personally prefer the VS code option but that is mostly because I prefer VS code to Notepad++
Anonymous Exactly the same sentiment here. Lack of connection to the PowerBI is limiting, but a quick way visually sepearating commands from variables/expressions is good. Also some intellisense in VSCode is a great way to explore