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Chapter 30The Ten Most Important OptionalFeatures of Dev-C++ In This Chapter Customize editor general settings to your taste Highlight matching braces and parentheses Enable exception handling Include debugging information (sometimes) Create a project file Customize the help menu Reset breakpoints after editing a file Avoid illegal filenames Include #include files in your project Executing the profilerThis chapter reviews some of the settings within the Dev-C++ environmentthat might affect you on a normal day of C++ programming. This chapteralso touches on the Dev-C++ profiler.Customize Editor Settings to Your TasteProgramming should be a pleasant experience. C++ has enough unpleasantthings to deal with, so you don’t need an editor that doesn’t think like you do.Fortunately, Dev-C++ allows you to “have it your way.” Choose Tools➪EditorOptions to change editor settings.Let me start with a few settings that don’t make much difference. For example,I prefer four spaces for a tab — you might prefer another amount. In addition,I have the editor draw a line down column 60 on the display to keep a singleline of code from extending so far that I can’t see the rest of my program.