i want to use gmedit and gms at the same time, but for some reason some of the changes i make in gmedit don't carry over to gms2 like they should. even when i press "save" in gms2, which i believe should save the changes made in gmedit, the corresponding code in gms2 doesn't change at all.

There’s an “automatically reloaded changed files” setting in GM IDE preferences.

If that doesn’t do it, you can try editing the same file in an external editor - if that doesn’t change it either, might be a new GM bug. You can then try disabling Code Editor 2 in Preferences if that’s on.