This is part of the online help for the IDE.
It describes the section: "Editor" / "Display". You can open the described dialog in your IDE via:
*The menu: "Tools" => "Options" / Editor options ...

• The source-editor pop-up menu: "Editor properties ...

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• Editor Options Overview of all Editor Options

     

• IDE Options Overview of all options for the IDE

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Display

Margin and gutter

• Visible right margin - show the right margin line
• Visible gutter - show the left bar
• Show line numbers - show line numbers in the gutter
• Show overview gutter - show the right bar (see IDE Window: Editor Options Display Gutter)
• Every n-th line number - fine tune the above 'Show line numbers' option
• Right margin color - position in characters
• Gutter separator index - define where the vertical separator line is drawn. A value of 4 means right between gutter and text. -1 means do not draw it at all.

Default editor font

• Font name - Can be as simple as 'courier' or as complicated as '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal---140-----iso10646-1' under gtk/X.
• Editor font height
• Extra line spacing - extra space between lines in pixels.
• Disable anti-aliasing

Related options

Colors

See Colors

Markup and Matches

See Markup and Matches

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From the Free Pascal wiki, page "IDE Window: Editor Options Display", as it stood on 2021-11-05 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.