Can't change my prefered editor.

i have a huge problem with the preference changes. At first i choose word because i am stupid. Well i thought it could be easily fixed by changeing it to visual studio. Just change the preferences and everything will be fine. So i googled my problem and saw that every video is posted way back in 2012 and 2015. What could have changed, i think to myself as i watch a tutorial. Well as i see now a lot has changed and the Ui is different. And here is my problem. I don’t have the option to change to visual studio. I have it instaled and working but from unitys point o view, it doesn’t exist and i can only serch my files for exe file. I am very sorry for my grammar English isn’t my first language and i am dumb.

In the Edit/Preferences…
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You should have the External Tools and on the right hand side the External Script Editor.
If you have installed the Visual Studio alongside Unity then it should be there.
If not, you have two options…

  • you can choose Open by file extension and change the default software to VS in your OS
    – on Windows, just ctrl-right click on a .cs file and Open With…
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    — then you can look for the VS installation’s exe and check the “Always use this app to open .cs files” checkbox

  • or you can choose the Browse… and just select the exe of the VS installation.

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