Preferences: Texteditor
In the preferences for the texteditor, many optical features of the editor can be adapted to your own needs. The following settings can be made:
Font & Color
- Font
- Font size
- Text alignment
- Font color
- Background color of the text field
- Color of the selected text
- Background color of the selected text
Spacing
- Line spacing
- Paragraph spacing
- Indentation at the beginning of a paragraph
- Padding left/right in the text field
- Padding top/bottom in the text field
Cursor
- cursor color
- I-beam cursor color
- option whether a thick/high cursor should be used
All changes made on Editor immediately affects open documents.
Additional options
Use Typewriter-Scrolling
This option always keeps the line of text that is currently being written in the middle of the text field.
Automatically scroll to insertion point
With this option, the editor automatically scrolls to the current insertion point when the editor window becomes active.
Show line-gutter
This option activates or deactivates the display of the line numbering.
Use thin line-gutter
If this option is selected and the line numbering of the text field is active, it will be displayed smaller. Open documents must be reopened for this option.
Use the same font style and color for line-gutters as used in the main-textfield
This option uses the text editor's font color and font for line numbering to display the line numbering and the separator line.