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I'm loking for a purely visual (not a code editor) tool for editing CMake files (i.e., CMakeLists.txt). If you know one, please post here, thanks.

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Dmitri Nesteruk
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    Your question is off-topic here. But I'd be interested to know what a purely visual tool for editing a text file is. – High Performance Mark Aug 25 '14 at 18:12
  • @HighPerformanceMark how is it off-topic? – Dmitri Nesteruk Aug 26 '14 at 10:00
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    @DmitriNesteruk _Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it._ - [Quoting straight from the help center](http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic). – ComicSansMS Aug 27 '14 at 09:33
  • CMakeLists:s are text files, or rather they are programs written in the CMake programming language. There is no way to represent them as something graphical so that you could drag things around... There are good editing modes for Emacs and Visual Studio, though. – Lindydancer Aug 28 '14 at 10:55
  • CMake is so well documented, and so easy that I can not understand how a visual editor could help !!!?? emacs is enough....and does the trick .... – sancelot Nov 09 '17 at 08:01
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    @sancelot C++ is so well-documented, why to use code editor or IDE, let's write code in Notepad. Hint: programming language and code editor are different entitties –  Mar 26 '19 at 13:31

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No there is not. However you can have a look at CMake Tools for Visual Studio

Features include the following:

  • Syntax highlighting for CMake code
  • Member selection list boxes for CMake commands and variables
  • Tool tips giving the parameters to CMake commands
  • Brace matching for CMake code
  • Support for CMake code snippets
  • Context-sensitive help, available by pressing F1 in the Visual Studio editor while the insertion point is over a standard CMake command or variable
  • Access to the CMake GUI and documentation from the Tools menu in Visual Studio
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