Editor Settings

Under Construction

See Also

App Settings, Script Editor

Use External Editor

Use External Editor for editing (True | False). Introduced in v4.1.

External Editor

The External Editor for editing, e.g. code. Introduced in v4.1.

External Editor Extensions

A comma separated list of file extensions that will be edited externally, e.g. js,ts,html,css,py,php. Introduced in v4.1.

Activate Completion

Activate statement completion (Always | Manually | Never).

Activate completion timeout

Activate statement completion timeout.

Enable Intellitips

Enable Intellitips (True | False).

Enable code snippets

Enable code snippets (True | False).

When a snippet is inserted it contains parameter insertion points e.g. Here is the snippet called ife for an if/else/endif statement.

if ${condition}
	${insert your code here}
else
	${insert your else code here}
endif

See Script Editor: Code Snippets for more details.

Enable command syntax hints

Enable command syntax hints (True | False).

Enable function parameter hints

Enable function parameter hints (True | False).

Enable command parameter hints

Enable command window parameter hints (True | False).

Insert matching characters

Automatically insert matching characters (True | False).

Enable code folding

Enable code folding (True | False).

Code Folding

Code blocks such as if...endif, for...endfor, scan...endscan and do case...endcase are automatically indicated in the left margin with a small + or - icon at the start of the block and an arrow at the end.

Click the - icon to fold the code block.

Click the + icon to unfold a folded code block.

See Script Editor: Code Folding for more details.

Enable word highlighting

Enable highlighting of words in file as typed (True | False).

Enable smart indenting

Enable smart indenting of code blocks (True | False).

Enable object naming conventions

Enable object naming conventions to display property/method pick lists based on identifier prefixes (True | False).

See Object Variable Intellisense Heuristics for details.

Refresh advanced panel

Always refresh the editor advanced panel when a file is edited (True | False).

Find and Advanced Panels

The Advanced Panel has a number of tabs providing the results of App or Library wide searches along with script and compilation output.

See Script Editor: Find Panel and Advanced Panel for more information about the editor advanced panel.