Formatting options
The formatting of the text is done by indentation engines. The indentation engines
are system services that can be installed or deinstalled or customized.
Currently there are two indentation engines:
Simple Indentation Engine
Java Indentation Engine
The Simple Indentation Engine has two options:
Expand Tabs to Spaces
- if True, the typed Tabs are expand to spaces.
The existing Tab characters ('\t') in the text are left unchanged. They can
be converted to tabs by reformatting the code.
Number of Spaces per Tab
- number of spaces to be substituted per typed Tab. It has only effect
if the Expand Tabs to Spaces is set to True.
The Java Indentation Engine has two more options:
Add Space before Parenthesis
- if True, whenever parentheses are used to enclose
parameters, a space precedes the opening parenthesis.
Curly Brace on Next Line
- if True, the opening curly brace is placed on a new line.
All the currently installed indentation engines are listed
under Project | Settings
under Indentation Engines.
The Indentation Engine property
under Tools | Global Options... and
the Editor Settings | <editor-type> node
defines which indentation engine will be used by the given editor type.
