View Menu

The view menu contains settings that control the display of individual components in the application.

 

The following figure displays the View menu. Mouse over any of the menu items for a brief description.

 

       

 

 

The following menu options are part of the view menu:

 

Menu Option

Description

Show invisibles

When active displays hidden characters such as tabs, spaces, or control characters in the editor window. This temporarily overrides the settings for the file type. To permanently display hidden characters use the Show invisibles option in View tab of the Settings dialog.

Show end of line characters

Displays the end of line characters which are normally hidden.

Show line numbers

Turns on or off the display of line numbers for all files in the editor.

Show indent guides

Shows or hides the display of indent guides.

Enable folding

This checkbox enables or disables folding within the current file. It is

Highlight Current Line

Turns on highlighting of the current line in the editor.

Word Wrap

Turns of word-wrapping mode where long lines are wrapped when they are too long to be displayed in the current window.

Zoom

The Zoom sub-menu contains zoom settings allowing the user to zoom in and out on the current file.

Folding

The Folding sub-menu contains folding settings allowing the user to override folding in the current file.

 

Zoom sub-menu

The zoom sub-menu contains

 

       

 

The following menu options are part of the zoom sub-menu:

 

Menu Option

Description

Zoom in

Zooms in on all documents.

Zoom out

Zooms out on all documents.

Small

Scales the font size to its smallest value zooming out on the document.

Normal

Displays the font at its default scale.

Large

Scales the font size to a larger value zooming in on the document.

 

Folding sub-menu

The zoom sub-menu contains

 

       

 

The following menu options are part of the folding sub-menu:

 

Menu Option

Description

Toggle current line fold

Toggles the active fold point in the document. For example, if the fold point is open or un-folded then pressing this button will un-fold or close the fold point.

Toggle folding

Toggles all fold points in the active document based on the state of the first fold in the document. For example, if the first fold is open or un-folded then pressing this button will fold or close all fold points in the document.

Fold all lines

Folds or closes all fold points in the active document.

Unfold all lines

Opens or un-folds all fold points in the active document such that they are all un-folded.