The 'Text Area' Options Panel


The 'Text Area' Options panel allows you to:

  1. Change the color used for the caret, selection and the mark all selection.
  2. Change the type of caret to use in insert and overwrite modes, as well as the caret's blink rate.
  3. Specify the tab size used in the text documents.
  4. Toggle whether to emulate tabs with spaces.
  5. Toggle whether to highlight the current line, and with what color to do so.
  6. Where to draw a margin line, if any, and with what color to do so.
  7. Whether to have all selections have rounded selection edges.

The "Restore Defaults" button at the bottom changes all options on this panel back to their default values.

See also: The Options Dialog