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Visual Editing Guides in Text View


Text View provides functions to facilitate the editing of large sections of text: line numbering, bookmarks, source folding, and indentation guides. Each of these functions can be enabled or disabled by clicking its respective icon in the toolbar.

 

ic-txt-lines        Enables/disables line numbering across all open documents

 

ic-txt-expand-marg        Enables/disables the source folding margin for all open documents

 

ic-txt-book-margin        Enables/disables the bookmark margin.

 

ic-txt-bk-ins        Inserts/removes bookmarks.

 

ic-txt-indent        Enables/disables indentation guides.

 

The graphic below shows these features:

 

txt-view-new

 

Note the following features in the graphic above:

 

Line numbering has been enabled
Source folding has been enabled. The plus sign indicates a collapsed element; the minus sign indicates an expanded element. When an element is collapsed, the line-numbering is correspondingly collapsed (see the collapsing at Lines 14 and 24). When source folding is disabled, any collapsed element is automatically expanded.
The Bookmarks Margin has been enabled. A bookmark has been created for Line 11.
Indentation guides have been enabled. These guides are vertical dotted lines that are helpful in determining where an element starts and ends (see Lines 46 and 47).

 

 


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