General Options (Text Editor — Options Dialog Box)

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Allows you to customize the environment options of your text editor.

Note   Application-specific options do not appear in the Options dialog box until the application is loaded into memory. Therefore you may not see the same options you saw during your last session. Once you create a project or use a command that uses a particular application, the options appear in the Options dialog box and remain available as long as the application remains in memory. Common options are available all of the time.

CAUTION   Clicking Cancel cancels all of the changes made in the dialog box. If you made changes to more than one category, none of the changes will be saved.

Options

Settings

Use Clickwait Time

Allows you to move the focus from one window to another without losing the insertion point location in the first window, if you press the mouse button for less than the amount of time set in the Milliseconds box. Suppose, for example, you select a word in the editor and then you click another window. If you previously selected the Use Clickwait Time option, and did not hold the mouse button down longer than the time you set in the Milliseconds box, the insertion point moves back to the selected word when you return to the first window. If you do not select the Use Clickwait Time option, the insertion point will appear where you last clicked the mouse in the second window.

Milliseconds

Allows you to choose your clickwait time. The range is 0 to 2000 milliseconds. The default is 0 milliseconds.

Go to Anchor After Escape

After you press ESC, moves the insertion point to the beginning or end of the selection, based on the location of the insertion point when you selected the text. For example, if you select a paragraph of text starting with the last word in the paragraph and press ESC, the insertion point moves to the end of the last word in the paragraph.

Paste with Insertion Point at Beginning of Selection

When checked, places the insertion point at the beginning of the selection when you paste it from the clipboard.

Drag and Drop Text Editing

Allows you to drag and drop elements within the current code and from the editor window into the Immediate window.

Include Insertion Point Movements in Undo List

Commands that only move the insertion point are placed on the Undo list.

Display

Selection Margin

Displays the margin on the left side of the editor window.

Margin Indicator Bar

Makes the margin indicator bar visible or not visible.

Vertical Scrollbar

Displays the vertical scrollbar in the editor window.

Horizontal Scrollbar

Displays the horizontal scrollbar in the editor window.