IDE Window: Editor Options

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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 ...

Navigation

• IDE Options Overview of all options for the IDE

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General

Please go to Editor Options General for options regarding:

• Undo / Redo
• Scrolling
• Indent and Tabs

Please also see Codetools for automatic indent of Pascal sources

• The Caret (Text-cursor)
• The block-selection

General / Misc

Please go to Editor Options General Misc for options regarding:

• Showing Withespace
• Trimming spaces
• Copy/paste: unselected / fold
• Search

Display

Please go to Editor Options Display for options regarding:

• Gutter / Margin
• Font
• Line-spacing

Colors

Please go to Color and Highlight settings for options regarding:

• Highlighting Pascal/Language specific elements
• General Highlighting (Selection, Line Highlights, ...)

Markup and Matches

Please go to Markup and Matches for options regarding:

• Highlight other occurences of the current word
• Matching brackets
• Extended Pascal-Keyword settings

Editor User Defined Words

Please go to Editor User Defined Words for options regarding:

• Highlight your own chosen words

Key Mappings

Please go to Key Mappings for options regarding:

• Keyboard
• See Lazarus IDE Shortcuts.

Mouse

Please go to Mouse settings for options regarding:

• Mouse

Completion and Hints

Please go to Completion and Hints for options regarding:

• Automatic removal of unused events
• Automatic completion of Pascal blocks (begin/end)
• Automatic completion of identifiers
• Hints in the Editor

Code folding

Please go to Code Folding for options regarding:

• Source/Text folding

Divider Draw Level

Please go to Divider Drawing for options regarding:

• Drawing divider lines

Multi Window

Please go to Pages and Windows for options regarding:

• Notebook and it's tabs
• Automatic selection of windows for code navigation