How to Change Editor Settings

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

Editing preferences can be saved by clicking Options on the Tools menu and changing values in the Edit tab.

MORE INFORMATION

To gain access to the editing preferences, click Options on the Tools menu. You must be using a resource file in order to use this option. If you have set resource off, the check box for "Save Preferences" and "Set as Default for .xxx Files" will be disabled. The "xxx" is the type of the file you are using, such as .prg or .txt.

The Options Dialog box contains options for text manipulation and file saving. These settings are in effect when you edit text in the Code window or Editing window.

When you click "Set As Default," Visual FoxPro saves all the options in all the tabs to the resource file. Again, this is only true if you are using a resource file.

If the "Set as Default" check box and command button are disabled and the "Save Preferences" check box is enabled the reason is that you can only save the preferences for the currently-active editing window.

For example, if you open a new program editing window, change some editing preferences, click the "Set as default" button, and then open a second program editing window, you will not have the default editing preferences that were set for the first window. Instead, you will have the editing preferences that were in effect when Visual FoxPro was started.

If you exit Visual FoxPro and restart it, the settings you saved by clicking the "Set as Default" button will apply to all new program files you create.

If the "Set as Default for .xxx files" check box is enabled, you will be able to set the default for all files that have the .xxx extension; that is, if you set as default for .prg files, all .prg files that are edited will have access to the same defaults.

REFERENCES

For more information on the Edit tab, please search for the "Edit Tab, Options Dialog Box" topic in the Visual FoxPro Help file.