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

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