# YAML Editor

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yaml-editor/143434>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yaml-editor/143434 "2018-08-08T06:50:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Sanjeev\_Gopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sanjeev\_Gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanjeev_Gopal)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yaml-editor/143434/1 "2018-08-08T06:50:34Z")

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Is there a YAML Editor you would recommend, preferably one that's command line based?

- Note that I'm NOT referring to a text/code editor that supports YAML - like Notepad++ or Atom.

- I'm referring to tools like [YAML COMMAND](https://github.com/rubyworks/yaml_command) or [YAWN YAML CLI](https://github.com/CodeLenny/yawn-yaml-cli)

I need to edit several configs - local and remote. Using text/code editors or sed is not efficient.

I tried the above listed tools. They didn't work readily with the kind of configs I have. For instance, they didn't work with:

output.logstash:  
hosts: ["localhost:5044"]  
loadbalance: false

Had to change to this to get the tools to work - not ideal!

output.logstash.hosts: ["localhost:5044"]  
output.logstash.loadbalance: false

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yaml-editor/143434/2 "2018-09-05T06:50:36Z")

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