6.5.2 Editor Configuration - Options
An array of options that determine exactly how the editor functions.
- Auto Indent
- Automatically indent lines based on source context
- Drag and drop editing
- Drag and drop selected text within the editor
- Drag and drop files
- Open files by dragging and dropping them from Windows into the editor
- Alt sets column mode
- Holding Alt while selecting text will select in a rectangle instead of line by line
- Maintain caret column
- When moving up/down, caret stays in the same column
- Block Indent/Unindent
- When a block of text is highlighted, use Tab/Shift-Tab to indent/unindent the selected code
- Right mouse moves cursor
- Whether a right mouse click will move the caret or keep its position
- Enhance home key
- Attempt intelligent guess at where to place caret when pressing Home
- Half page scroll
- Scroll by a half page instead of a full page when pressing Page Up/Page Down
- Scroll past end of line
- Allow scrolling past end of line
- Scroll past end of file
- Allow scrolling past end of file
- Show scroll hint
- Show a scroll hint
- Scroll follows mouse
- Scrolling follows movement of mouse
- Tabs to spaces
- Whether to use real tabs or convert to spaces
- Trim trailing spaces
- Whether to trim trailing spaces from end of line
- Group undo
- Group actions together so undo will reverse a "group" action
- Disable scroll arrows
- Don't allow scroll arrows
- Show special chars
- Display "special" characters in the editor