Edith Manual       Editor Options    4th September 1994


The EDITOR  BEHAVIOUR of  the Editress  can be  set  to
match a great variety of existing programs.


Select AUTO INDENT when you are writing program source.
Edith will  then  automatically  insert  space  at  the
beginning of a line according to the indentation of the
previous line.

Select AUTO WRAP when you are editing plain text.  AUTO
WRAP can be  quickly switched on  and off by  selecting
F5.    When   this   option   is   active, words    are
automatically moved to the  next line when they  exceed
the right margin.

A  number   of   characters  can   be   designated   as
INDENTATION. Indentation normally  includes blanks  and
tabs, but up to 8 other characters can be specified  in
this dialog.

Select FORMAT  ALIGNS  if  you  want  the  text  format
operation (TEXT menu, 
^F or F4) to align paragraphs to
the right margin by adding extra blanks between words.

Select USE EDIT BELL if you wish to hear the bell sound
when an action is performed that does not always have a
visible effect (such as Copy, or Push Position).

Select SHOW MATCHING  BRACKETS if you  are used to  the
UNIX editor  VI.  When  this switch  is on, the  cursor
will quickly blink at the corresponding opening bracket
when you type ), ] or }.

Select DISPLAY TRUE TABS AS CLOCKS when you're used  to
the TEMPUS editor.

Select EDITOR tabs when you want the TAB key to  insert
spaces into the text.  Select  TRUE tabs when you  want
tab characters (ASCII  9) instead.  NOTE  that the  tab
stops for true tabs and editor tabs are set separately;
edit tabs can  be set  by clicking on  the TEXT  RULER,
while the true tab distance is set in the RULER DIALOG.

Select MOVE OLD  BUFFERS TO TRASH  FILE, when you  want
optimum editing safety.  Old vital data that  threatens
to get  lost will  then automatically  be save  in  the
TRASH CAN FILE.  Whenever you wish to recover old data,
you can copy it back  from the TRASH CAN, which can  be
opened from the CLIPBOARD DIALOG, or by selecting  OPEN
TRASH CAN from the OPTIONS menu (^T).

The cursor  blink rate  can  be set  to any  amount  of
milliseconds.  An amount of 0 milliseconds will  result
in a steady cursor.


Edith Manual       Editor Options    4th September 1994