# What is the right tool to make yml files on Windows 10?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-right-tool-to-make-yml-files-on-windows-10/33875>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-right-tool-to-make-yml-files-on-windows-10/33875 "2020-09-23T08:00:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Prabhakaran_Karuppai)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-right-tool-to-make-yml-files-on-windows-10/33875/1 "2020-09-23T08:00:14Z")

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You know… There must be some Software tool like Notepad, Wordpad or Microsoft Word…  
How about Atos?  
Or Notepad++ Maybe…

My core learning is not with ansible. I just want to run some Playbooks…(On CentOS 7) to install Asterisk on the same and Mastering the Asterisk tool…

With Hope,  
Prabhakaran

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**Author:** ![Karl\_Auer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@Karl\_Auer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Karl_Auer)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-right-tool-to-make-yml-files-on-windows-10/33875/2 "2020-09-23T08:05:34Z")

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Any text editor will work, but don’t use a word-processor. You need to generate plain ascii files.

If you can afford the slight learning curve, see if you can find a programming editor you like. Visual Studio Code is free, multi-platform and excellent, but there are plenty of others that will understand YAML, do syntax highlighting and help you get the indentation right and avoid silly syntactical mistakes.

Me - I use vi 🙂

Regards, K.

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-the-right-tool-to-make-yml-files-on-windows-10/33875/3 "2020-09-23T09:03:46Z")

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But this list is for help with ansible issues. If you want to avoid  
learning anything about it, then use playbooks/roles/code that are  
confirmed to work out of the box. In that case this support list is  
less useful for you.

Picking an editor is a personal preference. See  
[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/other\_tools\_and\_programs.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/other_tools_and_programs.html)

Keep in mind that there is no requirement to use ansible. Asterisk  
will work fine without it.

Dick