The Editor preferences panel is opened from menu → → +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.
- Editor background color
Use this option to set the background color of the editor.
- Completion proposal background
Use this option to set the background color for the content completion window.
- Completion proposal foreground
Use this option to set the foreground color for the content completion window.
- Documentation window background
Use this option to set the background color for the window containing documentation for the content completion elements.
- Documentation window foreground
Use this option to set the foreground color for the window containing documentation for the content completion elements.
- Line Wrap (disables folding)
This option will do a soft wrap of long lines, that is automatically wrap lines in edited documents. When this option is checked line folding will be disabled.
- Highlight matching tag
This option enables highlight for the tag matching the one on which the caret is situated.
- Enable folding when opening a new editor
If checked, it enables folding when a new editor is opened.
- Minimum fold range (only for XML)
If "Enable folding when opening a new editor" is checked, you can specify the minimum number of lines for folding. If you modify this value, you'll notice the changes when you open/reopen the editor.
The Author preferences panel is opened from menu → → +Editor+Author
- Tags display mode
Default display mode for element tags presented in Author mode. You can choose between Full Tags with Attributes, Full Tags, Block Tags, Inline Tags, Partial Tags and No Tags.
- Show caret position info
If checked, the position information tooltip will be displayed. More information about the position information tooltip can be found in the section Position information tooltip. The documentation tooltip can be disabled from the Content Completion Annotations preferences panel.
- Show placeholders for empty elements
When checked, placeholders will be displayed for empty elements to make them clearly visible.
- Show Author layout messages
If checked, all errors reported during layout creation will be presented in the Errors view.
- Show block range
If checked, a block range indicator will be shown in a stripe located in the left side of the editor.
- Hide comments
When checked, comments from the documents edited in Author mode will be hidden.
- Hide processing instructions
When checked, processing instructions from the documents edited in Author mode will be hidden.
- Hide doctype
When checked, doctype sections from the documents edited in Author mode will be hidden.
- Show very large images
If unchecked, images larger than 6 megapixels(24MB uncompressed) will not be loaded and displayed in Author mode. Please be aware that this option is unchecked by default because of the large amounts of application memory that images of high resolution can occupy. As a result, an OutOfMemory error could occur which would practically make <oXygen/> unusable without a restart of the entire application.
- Delete tag action
Specifies the default behavior when you delete the start or end marker of an element. You can choose between:
Always ask
Always join
Always unwrap
You can read more about this in Editing the XML markup section.
- Show author page warning
When checked, a warning dialog will be displayed when switching to Author mode. The warning reminds you that the whitespaces from the text content are evaluated according to the value of the CSS white-space property associated to the enclosing elements.
- Display referred content (e.g.: entities, XInclude, DITA conref, etc.)
When checked, the references(entities, XInclude, DITA conref, etc) will also display the content of the resources they refer.
- Show confirmation when opening a reference from the DITA Maps Manager
If checked a dialog will be shown allowing the user to choose if he wants to open the referred topic in the text or author page when the topic is opened from the DITA Maps Manager.