Shows the common preferences. These settings are grouped into "Application preferences", "General editor functionality", "Toggle view preferences" and "Default view preferences". The following settings can be set:
No splash on startup (default disabled)
If set suppresses the splash screen during startup.
Show class info (default enabled)
If set shows the class info if they are available for the current programming language.
Show toolbar (default enabled)
If set shows the toolbar below the menu.
Show statusbar (default enabled)
If set shows the statusbar at the bottom of the window.
Use tabbed pages (default enabled)
Whenever a new edit window is opened it's shown as a tabbed page instead of a top level window.
Enable syntax colouring (default enabled)
If set colours the text depending on the used programming language.
Enable folding (default enabled)
If set shows the fold points for collapsing/expanding folds depending on the used programming language.
Enable autoindent (default enabled)
If set indents any new line to the same position as the pervious line.
Overwrite mode (default disabled)
If set uses overwrite (OVR) instead of insert (INS) as the initial mode.
Wrap mode (default disabled)
If set uses wrapping text instead of no wrap as the initial mode.
Readonly mode (default disabled)
If set uses readonly instead of readwrite as the initial mode.
Show line endings (default disabled)
If set shows the line endings (CR = CarriageReturn, LF = LineFeed).
Show indent guides (default disabled)
If set shows the indent guides (dotted vertical lines at the positions of the indents).
Show line numbers (default enabled)
If set shows the line numbers in the first vertical margin.
Show long line marker (default disabled)
If set shows the long line marker at the position depending on the used programming language.
Show white space (default disabled)
If set shows dots (".") for spaces and arrows ("->") for tabulators.
Convert to spaces (default disabled)
Before saving the text tabulators are converted to spaces.
Convert to tabulators (default disabled)
Before saving the text spaces are converted to tabulators.
Shows the languages settings. Most of these setting can't be changed since they are close related to the underlying functions. The following settings can be set:
Choose language
Determines for which language the preferences were shown and displays the associated lexer ID.
Filepatterns
Determines which file types where associated with which programming language. Allowed are complete filenames (name with/without extension), only name (extension wildcard ".*") or only extension (name wildcard "*."). Multiple entries are separated by commas (',').
Help books
Determines which help books should be loaded and searched when a keyword is selected (selected text within an edit window while pressing help key).
Indent value
Determines the count of characters used for intentiation.
Long line marker (pos)
Determines the position of the long line marker.
Flags
Determines which flags are set when the appropriate programming language is used. Currently the following flags are supported: Wrap mode
The following settings are just shown and can't be changed:
Styles
Shows which style types where associated with a language. To see the key word list select the appropriate style named "Keywords1..6".
Fold points
Shows which type of fold points are possible. Currently the following fold points are supported: Comment, Compact, Preprocessor, Html, Html Preproc., Comment python, Quotes python
Shows the style types settings. The following settings can be set:
Choose style
Determines for which style the preferences were shown.
Foreground (default black)
Defines the colour of the foreground.
Background (default white)
Defines the colour of the background.
Font name (default system defined)
Defines the used font name. If empty the system defined font name is used.
Font size (default 10)
Defines the used font size.
Font style (default none)
Defines the font styles, possible values are Bold, Italic, Underline, Hidden.
Sample (readonly)
Shows the above chosen style settings. The text can not be changed.
Letter case (default mixed)
Defines the letter case, possible values are Mixed, Uppercase, Lowercase.