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Symbol: _cds_icon_option_text_editor

Function: The dialog contains settings for displaying and working in a text editor.

Call: Menu bar: “Tools  Options”, category “Text editor”

Tab 'Theme'

On this tab, you set the desired theme in the interface design of the ST editor.

“Theme”

Color theme for the text editor. The selected theme is shown in the “Preview” window. The available color schemes are stored in the installation directory in the ‎Themes‎ folder.

Tab 'Editing'

“Number of undos”

Maximum number of editing steps that you can apply the “Edit  Undo” command to.

“Folding”

Defines the structuring of the code by indentation.

When you select an indentation, you can expand or collapse the indentation section by means of a plus and minus sign in front of the first line of each section.

  • “Indent”: CODESYS combines all lines that are indented in relation to the preceding line into one indentation unit.

  • “Explicit”: You mark the code segment explicitly with comments that should be combined in one indentation unit: a comment with three opening braces "{{{" has to be before the segment, and a comment with three closing braces "}}}" has to be after the segment. The comments can contain additional text. Example:

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“Word wrap”

  • “Soft”: The line break occurs at the edge of the editor window when 0 is specified for “Wrap margin”.

  • “Hard”: The line break occurs after the number of characters specified for “Wrap margin”.

“ Tab width”

Number of characters

“Keep tabs”

_cds_icon_option_activated: CODESYS does not break up the space you have inserted with the [Tab] key into individual spaces afterwards.

“Indent width”

If you have selected “Smart” or “Smart with code completion” for the “AutoIndent” option, then CODESYS inserts the number of spaces at the beginning of the line.

“AutoIndent”

  • “None”

  • “Block”: A new line automatically applies the indentation of the previous line.

  • “Smart”: Lines that follow a line which contains a keyword (for example, ‎VAR‎) indent automatically by the specified ‎Indent width‎.

  • “Smart with code completion”: Indentation as in the case of the “Intelligent ” option, but CODESYS also inserts the closing keyword (for example, ‎END_VAR‎).

Tab 'Text Area'

“Highlight current line”

_cds_icon_option_activated: The line where the cursor is located is highlighted.

“Matching brackets”

_cds_icon_option_activated: When the cursor is positioned before or after a bracket within a line of code, the corresponding closing or opening bracket is marked by a frame.

“End of line markers”

_cds_icon_option_activated: The end of each editor line is marked by a small dash after the last character (including spaces) of the line.

“Wrap guide”

_cds_icon_option_activated: When a soft or hard line break is activated, the defined line break position is displayed with a vertical line.

“Font”

Clicking the field opens the default dialog for configuring the font.

Tab 'Margin'

Settings for the left margin of the text editor window, which is separated from the input area by a vertical line:

“Line numbering”

_cds_icon_option_activated: The declaration and implementation parts of the editor are numbered on the left, each beginning with 1.

“Highlight current line”

_cds_icon_option_activated: The line number of the line where the cursor is located is highlighted.

“Show bracket scope”

_cds_icon_option_activated: Brackets include the lines between the keywords that open and close a construct (for example, ‎IF‎ and ‎END_IF‎). When the option is enabled and the cursor is positioned before, after, or in one of the keywords of a construct, the bracket area is displayed with a square bracket in the margin.

“Mouse Actions”

You can assign one of the following actions to each of the specified mouse actions or mouse-keyboard combinations. CODESYS performs the selected action when you move the mouse to the plus or minus sign in front of the header of a bracketed area:

  • “None”: The mouse action does not trigger an action.

  • “Select fold”: CODESYS selects all lines of the bracketed area.

  • “Toggle fold”: CODESYS opens or closes the bracketed area, or if there are nested brackets, the first level of the bracketed area.

  • “Toggle fold fully”: CODESYS opens or closes all levels of a nested bracketed area.

Tab 'Monitoring'

Settings for displaying the monitoring fields

“Enable inline monitoring”

_cds_icon_option_activated: Display of the monitoring fields behind the variables in online mode

“Number of displayed digits”

Number of comma places in the monitoring field

“String length”

Maximum length of string variable values in the monitoring field