Editor

The Editor preferences panel is opened from menu Window > Preferences > oXygen > Editor.

Use these options to configure the visual aspect of the text editor. The same options panel is available in the restricted version of the Preferences dialog.

The following options are available:

• Editor background - Background color for both text editor and Diff Files editors.
• Completion proposal background - Background color of the content completion assistant window.
• Completion proposal foreground - Foreground color of the content completion assistant window.
• Documentation window background - Background color of the window containing documentation for the elements suggested by the content completion assistant.
• Documentation window foreground - Foreground color for the window containing documentation for the elements suggested by the content completion assistant.
• Show TAB/NBSP/EOL/EOF marks - Marks the TAB/NBSP/EOL/EOF characters using small icons, for a better visualization of the document. Also sets the marks color.
  • Show SPACE marks - marks each space with a light grey dot.
    Note: You can change the color of the dots from the colors palette of the Show TAB/NBSP/EOL/EOF marks option.
• Indent with tabs - When checked, sets the indent size to a tab unit. When unchecked, the application uses space characters to form an indent. The number of space characters that form a tab is defined by the Indent size option.
• Line wrap - Enables soft wrap of long lines, that is automatically wrap lines in edited documents. The document content is unaltered as the application does not use newline characters to break long lines.
• Highlight matching tag - If you place the cursor on a start or end tag, Oxygen XML Editor plugin highlights the corresponding member of the pair. You can also customize the highlight color.
• Display quick assist notification icon - Displays the Quick Fix yellow bulb icon in the editor line number stripe.
• Enable folding when opening a new editor - Enables folding support when you open a new editor pane.
• Minimum fold range (only for XML) - If Enable folding when opening a new editor option is checked, you can specify the minimum number of lines in a block for which the folding support becomes active. If you modify this value, the change takes effect next time you open / reopen the editor.