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What would be a method to use external editor (with code hints, syntax highlighting etc, like dreamweaver) to update stylesheet and theme files? The editor in admin section of cmsms is rather limited. But stylesheets and php theme files are kept in database. Is there any method to make use of external editors to develop/update theme and stylesheet files during site design, other than copying and pasting all the time from external editor to cmsms editor?

How about the firefox addon It's All Text! at https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a ... -all-text/?

You can specify the editor you want to use and get an edit button if you mouse over a text area. By clicking it opens the content of the text area in the specified editor, by saving it it writes the modified content automatic back to the text area. Very neat indeed

There is a module Template Externalizier http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/externalizer that should be something you are looking for, otherwise if you only need syntaxhighlighting there is also EditaArea module http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/editarea (for me combination of EditArea and ScriptDeploy is all i need and as good as never use external Editor when working on CMSMS Template)
ScriptDeploy uses the same syntaxhighlighter as EditArea and in the future editing of Templates not only Stylesheets and JavaScript should be possible with ScriptDeploy, so i would recommend to look at it to.