IDE Window: Editor Options

This is part of the online help for the IDE.

It describes the section: "Editor Options". You can open the described dialog in your IDE via:

The menu: "Tools" => "Options" / Editor options ...
The source-editor pop-up menu: "Editor properties ...

The available editor options are:

General
- Undo / Redo
- Scrolling
- Indent and Tabs
  Please also see Codetools for automatic indent of Pascal sources
- Cursor
- Selection
- Misc
  - Showing Whitespace
  - Trimming spaces
  - Copy/paste: unselected / fold
  - Search
Display
- Gutter / Margin
- Font
- Line-spacing
- Colors
  - Highlighting Pascal/Language specific elements
  - General Highlighting (Selection, Line Highlights, ...)
- Markup and Matches
  - Highlight other occurrences of the current word
  - Matching brackets
  - Extended Pascal-Keyword settings
User defined markup
Highlight your own chosen words
- Key Mappings
  - Keyboard
  - See Lazarus IDE Shortcuts.
- Mouse settings
  - Mouse
Completion and Hints
- Automatic removal of unused events
- Automatic completion of Pascal blocks (begin/end)
- Automatic completion of identifiers
- Hints in the Editor
Code Folding
- Source/Text folding
Divider Drawing
- Drawing divider lines
Pages and Windows
- Notebook and its tabs
- Automatic selection of windows for code navigation

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "IDE Window: Editor Options", as it stood on 2021-11-04 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.

Revision 3, last changed by WikiArchive 11-4-2026.

Edited on wiki.freepascal.org by 15 people, 2006–2021

From the official wiki's backup of 26 May 2024: who edited this page there, and when. Edits made there after that date were not recorded, and the earlier versions are not shown here; the main page says why.

When	Who	What changed
4-30-2006	Mattias2
4-30-2006	Mattias2	General
4-30-2006	Mattias2	General
4-30-2006	Mattias2	General
4-30-2006	Mattias2	Display
4-30-2006	Mattias2	Key Mappings
4-30-2006	Mattias2	Color
4-30-2006	Mattias2	Code Tools
4-30-2006	Mattias2	Delay
5-1-2006	Mattias2	General
5-1-2006	Swen	(minor)
1-8-2007	Swen	(minor)
1-8-2007	Swen	(minor)
4-11-2007	EffH8g	(minor)
4-11-2007	Vincent	Reverted edits by EffH8g (EffH8g); changed back to last version by Swen (minor)
1-18-2008	Swen	Margin and gutter (minor)
7-29-2008	Mattias2	Key Mappings
8-9-2008	Mattias2	General
8-9-2008	Mattias2
8-9-2008	Swen	Auto indent (minor)
8-9-2008	HowardPC	Persistent cursor (minor)
10-7-2008	Tombo	Default editor font
11-26-2008	Ggeldenhuys	Code folding
11-26-2008	Ggeldenhuys	Divider Draw Level
2-2-2009	Skalogryyz	added Automatic feature, based on Martin's email to the mailling list
2-3-2009	Martin	Changed page to match the new Option dialog; added info about trim spaces and indent modes
3-26-2009	Martin	Trim spaces style
3-26-2009	Martin	Trim spaces style
4-4-2009	Martin	Divider Draw Level
4-4-2009	Martin	Divider Draw Level (minor)
4-28-2009	Mattias2	Margin and gutter
5-21-2009	Mattias2	Identifer Completion
5-25-2009	Martin	Auto indent
5-25-2009	Martin	Auto indent
5-25-2009	Martin	Auto indent
6-2-2009	Martin
6-3-2009	Martin	Mouse
6-6-2009	Martin	Double click line
6-6-2009	Martin	Mouse
6-6-2009	Martin	Right mouse moves caret
6-6-2009	Martin	Alt-Key sets column mode
8-6-2009	Mattias2	Automatic features
8-6-2009	Mattias2	Markup
8-7-2009	Martin	Code Tools
8-19-2009	Martin	Code folding
8-19-2009	Martin	Divider Draw Level
8-19-2009	Martin	Drop files
8-19-2009	Martin	Mouse
8-19-2009	Martin	Mouse
8-19-2009	Martin	Identifer Completion
8-19-2009	Martin	Automatic Features
8-19-2009	Martin	Markup
8-19-2009	Martin	Complete blocks
8-19-2009	Martin	Misc
8-19-2009	Martin	Divider Draw Level
8-19-2009	Martin	Automatic features
8-19-2009	Martin
8-19-2009	Martin	Mouse
4-22-2010	Martin	Divider Draw Level
5-25-2010	Martin	General
5-25-2010	Martin
6-2-2010	Martin	Color
6-2-2010	Martin	Mouse
8-31-2010	Ggeldenhuys	Scroll Hint
10-20-2010	Martin	Smart tabs
10-30-2010	Martin	Indent and Tabs
10-30-2010	Martin	General: Moved to separate page
10-30-2010	Martin	General
10-30-2010	Martin	General / Misc
10-30-2010	Martin	Display
10-30-2010	Martin
10-30-2010	Martin
10-30-2010	Martin
10-30-2010	Martin
10-30-2010	Martin
10-30-2010	Martin
10-30-2010	Martin
4-16-2012	Chronos
10-25-2012	Martin
11-30-2012	BigChimp	cat
1-31-2013	Martin	Markup and Matches
1-31-2013	Martin	Markup and Matches
3-27-2014	Arent
3-27-2014	Arent
2-8-2015	BlaiseP	(minor)
7-1-2015	FTurtle
7-2-2015	FTurtle
7-3-2015	FTurtle
1-26-2021	Trev	Fix blurry image - size issue (minor)
11-4-2021	Trev	Add page link to IDE Window Gutter
11-4-2021	Trev	Fix page link (minor)

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