Open actions and edit them externally

Hey folks,

I'm kinda stuck with actions in PS. I would like to open .atn files, edit them in a text editor and save them as .atn files again. 

I can open them via the alchemist plugin, copy the code, bring it into some text editor, and make changes. But how can I create .atn files? 

Some recommended xTools, unfortunately, I have trouble running the scripts. 

Someone else recommended UltraEdit, didn't work either 😕😕

So my initial idea is to create some action logic that saves automatically, that works. But, the export path is hard written, I do many exports, in many different folders, so changing it in PS is too much work. 

I wanna share my actions with my colleagues, but ofc they have a different file path, so it needs to be changed. replacing it within a text editor is fairly easy. 

I hope with that information you get some idea of the problem I am facing.

Hope someone knows what to do, 

Henrik