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IDE Options - Editor

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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+[[File:IDE-options-editor.JPG|thumb|600px|IDE Options - Editor]]
-You can get this dialog via:
+This is part of the online help for the IDE.
-*Menu / Environment / Editor options ...
-*Source editor / popup menu / Editor properties ...
-= General =
+It describes the section: "Editor Options". You can open the described dialog in your IDE via:
-<h3>Please go to [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_General|Editor Options General]] for options regarding:</h3>
+*The menu: "Tools" => "Options" / Editor options ...
-*Undo / Redo
+*The source-editor pop-up menu: "Editor properties ...
-*Scrolling
-*Indent and Tabs
-::Please also see Codetools for automatic indent of Pascal sources
-*The Caret (Text-cursor)
-*The block-selection
-= General / Misc =
+The available editor options are:
-<h3>Please go to [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_General_Misc|Editor Options General Misc]] for options regarding:</h3>
+*[[IDE Window: Editor Options General|General]]
-*Showing Withespace
+**Undo / Redo
-*Trimming spaces
+**Scrolling
-*Copy/paste: unselected / fold
+**Indent and Tabs<br />Please also see Codetools for automatic indent of Pascal sources
-*Search
+**Cursor
+**Selection
-= Display =
+**[[IDE_Window: Editor Options General Misc|Misc]]
-<h3>Please go to [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Display|Editor Options Display]] for options regarding:</h3>
+***Showing Whitespace
-*Gutter / Margin
+***Trimming spaces
-*Font
+***Copy/paste: unselected / fold
-*Line-spacing
+***Search
+*[[IDE Window: Editor Options Display|Display]]
-= Key Mappings =
+**[[IDE Window: Editor Options Display Gutter|Gutter / Margin]]
+**Font
-See [[Lazarus IDE Shortcuts]].
+**Line-spacing
+** [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_HighlightColors|Colors]]
-== Filter ==
+*** Highlighting Pascal/Language specific elements
+*** General Highlighting (Selection, Line Highlights, ...)
-At the top there is an edit field to set a text filter. You can type some letters and the tree will be updated to show only those keys which description contains the word. Set empty to show all.
+**[[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Markup|Markup and Matches]]
+*** Highlight other occurrences of the current word
-== Tree of IDE shortcuts ==
+*** Matching brackets
+*** Extended Pascal-Keyword settings
-Here you can see all commands and shortcuts of the IDE.
+* [[IDE_Window:_Editor_User_Defined_Words|User defined markup]]
-Click on one of the keys to popup a dialog to edit the shortcut.
+* Highlight your own chosen words
+**[[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Keymap|Key Mappings]]
-== Find key combination ==
+*** Keyboard
+*** See [[Lazarus IDE Shortcuts]].
-Click on the button to show a dialog. Grab a key and press ok. The tree will then only show those keys that start with the shortcut. Select VK_UNKNOWN to show all.
+** [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Mouse|Mouse settings]]
+*** Mouse
-== Choose scheme ==
+*[[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Completion_Hints|Completion and Hints]]
+** Automatic removal of unused events
-Load one of the predefined key mappings. This will replace '''all''' your shortcuts.
+** Automatic completion of Pascal blocks (begin/end)
+** Automatic completion of identifiers
-== Check consistency ==
+** Hints in the Editor
+* [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Code_Folding|Code Folding]]
-Search for double defined keys.
+** Source/Text folding
+* [[IDE_Window:_Divider_Drawing_Divider_Draw|Divider Drawing]]
-= Mouse =
+** Drawing divider lines
+* [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_MultiWindow|Pages and Windows]]
-== See [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Mouse|Mouse settings]] ==
+** Notebook and its tabs
+** Automatic selection of windows for code navigation
-= Colors =
-== See [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_HighlightColors|Color and Highlight settings]] ==
-= Automatic Features =
-== Auto remove empty methods ==
-Published methods without code are automatically removed on save. For example: When you double click on a form the IDE creates the published method FormCreate. When this is option is enabled and the method is still empty the IDE will remove it when you save the form.
-== Tooltip symbol Tools ==
-When the mouse moves over an identifier in the source editor and waits a few seconds the IDE will present a hint with some informations.
-== Complete blocks ==
-Complete blocks. For example, when you type ''begin'' and press return the IDE will automatically add the ''end;''.
-This feature exists since 0.9.27.
-== Tooltip expression evaluation ==
-During debugging the tooltip hint will try to evaluate the expression at the cursor.
-=== Delay ===
-Set here the waiting period before the hint pops up.
-== Markup ==
-There are a couple of options to control the current-word-markup
-feature. They are on the "Automatic feature" page of the editor option
-(plus color settings on the color page)
-Note: If you have a block selected, the selected block will be used as
-term to highlight, rather than the word under caret.
-Some settings are only for block, others only for current-word
-) You can change the time after which highlighting kicks in. You can
-also disable the Timer completely, in which case you can still toggle
-Highlighting by Keyboard
-) Toggle by Keyboard (default Alt-M)
-You can toggle the highlight to any chosen word, or selection by
-pressing Alt-M while at the word, or while having selected the desired
-block.
-Pressing Alt-M again will set the "fixed" word to the word at your new
-location. To untoggle, press Alt-M twice at the same location
-(The exact behaviour is: If your current selected block, or (if no block
-selected) the current word under cursor is the same term as the word you
-toggled-fixed, this will clear the fixed word. Otherwise the fixed word
-will be set)
-) You can ignore Keywords. This is a hardcoded list of Keywords, and
-will ignore them even if they are used in a context where they would not
-be seen as Keyword. The list comes from the highlighter, so this only
-works together with the highlighter.
-) for current-word only:
-You can choose to only highlight exact matches(match word boundaries)
-instead of any occurrence including occurrences in other words. By
-Default this applies to words shorter than 3 chars.
-For example:
-Set option to true and field to 3.
-If the word at caret is the 3 letter word 'laz' then all 'laz' will be marked, but not 'lazarus' or 'blaz'.
-If the word at caret is the 4 letter word 'laza' then all words including 'laza' will be marked, such as 'lazarus'.
-) blocks only:
-by default leading/trailing spaces are ignored/stripped from the search term
-To disable the feature completely:
-Set all colors (FG,. BG and Frame) to default (check the tickbox); make
-sure no Styles (bold, italic) are selected.
-This will be recognized, and the Editor is clever enough and will not
-even trigger the search for other words.
-== Bracket Highlight ==
-If the cursor is behind or in front of a bracket, highlight matching bracket
-= Code folding =
-Define which constructs in your source can be folded. See [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_Code_Folding|Code Folding]]
-= Divider Draw Level =
-* Lazarus 0.9.26
-:This option will draw a horizontal line based on the code folding level you specified.
-::'''Example:'''
-:* If you set this option to 1, the editor will draw a horizontal divider line in the editor after the 'end' keyword of each method. This is very handy if you want a visual cue where methods start and end.
-:* If you set this option to 2, it will draw another horizontal line after the 'end' keyword of any nested begin..end block inside methods.
-:* The higher you set the value the more nested begin..end blocks will be included.
-* Lazarus 0.9.28
-Allows to draw a vertical line at the end of selected structures. E.g draw a line after each procedure. See [[IDE_Window:_Divider_Drawing|Divider drawing]]
-= Multi Window =
-please see [[IDE_Window:_Editor_Options_MultiWindow]]

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