Text Editor Options

Last modified: November 26, 2019

This section describes code and text editor options.

General, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box

Use the Options window to adjust Code Compare behavior to your needs. To open it, choose Options from the Tools menu.

The General page of the Text Editor node contains the following options:

Settings

Virtual white space

When selected, it allows you to move the cursor beyond the physical end of a text line into character spaces that do not exist. If you move your cursor out into this area and begin typing, the void between your current position and the end of the last word is automatically filled with space characters. When this setting is not selected, you will not be able to move the cursor beyond the last character in a line.

Bracket matching

If selected, Code Compare finds a corresponding bracket for the closest one to your cursor.

Display

Line numbers

Displays line numbers to the left of the Text view of your document.

Indicator margin

Reveals the indicator margin to the left of the Text view of your document.

Navigation bar

Check this option to enable the navigation bar.

Hide if empty

Check this option to show navigation bar only when one or more code members exist.

Tabs, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box

Use the Options window to adjust Code Compare behavior to your needs. To open it, choose Options from the Tools menu.

The Tabs page of the Text Editor node allows setting up indenting and tab properties. You can use the following options:

Indenting

None

When selected, no automatic indenting takes place when you press ENTER to move to a new line of text. The cursor is placed in the first column of the next line.

Block

With this option selected, when you press ENTER, the new text line is automatically indented to the same tab stop as the preceding line.

Smart

When selected, new lines of text are automatically indented taking into account formatting options.

Tabs

Tab size

Sets the number of spaces equivalent to a single tab character.

Insert spaces

If selected, the TAB key inputs several spaces, depending on the Tab size option.

Keep tabs

If selected, the TAB key inputs a tab character.

Advanced, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box

This tab contains information about code editor settings. You can improve your code editor performance using these options.

Enable syntax highlight

Clear this check box to disable syntax highlight, code completion, navigation and outlining.

Max text size

Specify the maximum script size for syntax highlight support.

Enable code completion, navigation and outlining

Clear this check box to disable code completion, navigation and outlining.

Note

Please note, that turning this option on can significantly improve performance of your application.

Max text size

Specify the maximum script size for code completion, navigation and outlining support.

Font & Colors, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box

Use the Options window to adjust Code Compare behavior to your needs. To open it, choose Options from the Tools menu.

The Fonts & Colors page of the Text Editor node allows you to setup fonts and colors in the code and text editor for different display items.

You can use the following options:

Font (bold type indicates fixed-width fonts)

Lists all the fonts installed in your system. Fixed fonts are displayed in bold.

Size

Specify the font size for the selected display item here.

Use Defaults

Resets the text editor font and color settings to default values.

Display items

Select a display item here to change its font and color settings.

Plain Text

Text, when editing a file as text.

Selected Line

Line selected in the Find Results window.

Bold

Select it to display text of selected display items in bold.

Italic

Select it to display text of selected display items in italic.

Item foreground

Font color of a selected display item.

Item background

Background color of a selected display item.

Sample

Sample of a display item appearance.

Printing, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box

Use the Options window to adjust Code Compare behavior to your needs. To open it, choose Options from the Tools menu.

The Printing page of the Text Editor node allows you to setup printing. It contains the following options:

Settings

Print header

Select this check-box to print the name of your document.

Print line numbers

Select this check-box to print line numbers in your document.

Print white space

Select this check-box to print white space symbols, tabulation symbols, and symbols of line breaks.