Syntax editor options
Syntax Color Coding
You can turn color coding of commands, subcommands, keywords, keyword values, and comments off or on and you can specify the font style and color for each.
Error Color Coding
You can turn color coding of certain syntactical errors off or on and you can specify the font style and color used. Both the command name and the text (within the command) containing the error are color coded, and you can choose different styles for each. See the topic Color Coding for more information.
Auto-Complete Settings
You can turn automatic display of the auto-complete control off or on. The auto-complete control can always be displayed by pressing Ctrl+Spacebar. See the topic Auto-Completion for more information.
Indent size
Specifies the number of spaces in an indent. The setting applies to indenting selected lines of syntax as well as to automatic indentation.
Gutter
These options specify the default behavior for showing or hiding line numbers and command spans within the Syntax Editor's gutter--the region to the left of the text pane that is reserved for line numbers, bookmarks, breakpoints, and command spans. Command spans are icons that provide visual indicators of the start and end of a command.
Panes
Display the navigation pane. This specifies the default for showing or hiding the navigation pane. The navigation pane contains a list of all recognized commands in the syntax window, displayed in the order in which they occur. Clicking on a command in the navigation pane positions the cursor at the start of the command.
Automatically open Error Tracking pane when errors are found. This specifies the default for showing or hiding the error tracking pane when run-time errors are found.
Optimize for right to left languages. Check this box for the best user experience when working with right to left languages.
Paste syntax from dialogs. Specifies the position at which syntax is inserted into the designated syntax window when pasting syntax from a dialog. After last command inserts pasted syntax after the last command. At cursor or selection inserts pasted syntax at the position of the cursor; or, if a block of syntax is selected, then the selection will be replaced by the pasted syntax.
To set syntax editor options
From the menus, choose:
Click the Syntax Editor tab.