Preferences

Generic editor settings

Editor settings

Show whitespace All All except spaces All trailing All except non-trailing spaces Smart Home/End cursor positioning If set, go to the beginning/end of the line even if the line is wrapped. Smart auto indenting explanation… Show the automatic completion pop-up window Immediately Delayed

Non-project initial documents settings

This settings can be modified for every project see Project

Initial documents settings

Default template see Templates Word wrap by default if set, the lines are wrapped to the width of the window. (Smart) Auto indenting use or not auto indenting, the choice between smart or not is given up in Generic editor settings show line numbers explanation… Highlight current line explanation… Enable block folding see Block folding Enable automatic completion pop-up see Autocompletion Highlight block delimiters see Block folding</small Enable spell check see Spell checker

HTML

HTML

Files

Files

Templates

see Templates

User interface

User interface

Dimensions

Dimensions

Images

Images

External commands, filters and output parsers

see External programs, filters

Plugins

enable/disable plugins

Styles and languages

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