Teach Yourself Borland C++ in 14 Days - portal

386 Day 10
NOTE
Real programmers use tab stops of either two or three characters. (I use
two-character tabs.)
The Undo limit of 32,767 is probably sufficient for most needs (I hope!), so I doubt you’ll
feel the need to modify that setting. The Syntax extensions field allows you to select the types
of files for which syntax highlighting will be applied. For example, you probably don’t want
syntax highlighting applied to regular text files (.txt) that you open in the Code Editor, so
that file type is not listed by default.
In the middle of the Editor page, you will find a whole gaggle of editor options from which
to choose. Because there are so many options available, and because it is difficult to determine
exactly which of the available options are the most important, I’ll refer you to the C++Builder
online help. Simply press F1 while on this page or click the Help button and you will have
explanations of each of the editor options you see on this page. As with some of the other
options you looked at today, you can probably feel comfortable in accepting the C++Builder
defaults. (Except for the tab stops and block indent!)
The Display Page
The Display page of the Environment Options dialog box has additional options from which
you can choose. These options pertain to the actual display of the text in the Code Editor
window. (See Figure 10.15.)
Figure 10.15.
The Display page.
In the Display and file options section, you will find the BRIEF cursor shapes option. Turn
on this option if you want the horizontal cursor in the editor window rather than the vertical
cursor. Check the Create backup file option if you want C++Builder to create a backup file
every time you save your file or your project. Backup file extensions begin with a tilde (~). For
instance, the backup file for a source file called MyApp.cpp would by MyApp.~cp.