External editor reload into renoise with changes

Renoise Tool Development
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I urgently need to stop using the Renoise Scripting Terminal & Editor.

I’ve tried adding this

_AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG = true

to the beginning of PakettiSamples.lua
and to the end of main.lua

but i don’t see any changes happening when i make changes to the file on an external editor.

if i go to Scripting Editor in Renoise and load main.lua and add a line and press save, i also don’t see PakettiSamples.lua changes being reload.

What am I missing here, please?

I use 25 requires before the _AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG = true command. is this the way?

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Right now Renoise only tracks changes made to the main.lua file. It does not check other files in the XRNX bundle.

We’ll change that, but until then, save the main.lua file after you’ve done your changes, in order to reload your tool.

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I use

_AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG = function()
end

I only need this in main.lua and every time I change any file I don’t have to update all the tools.
After clicking into Renoise the tool is loaded automatically.
Just run it.

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