Configuring the Editor

Indenting Code

When you type code, it is indented automatically according to the selected options. Select a block to indent it when you press Tab. Press Shift+Tab to decrease the indentation.

When you press Backspace the indentation is decreased by one level, instead of one space, by default.

By default, the tab-length in code editor is 8 spaces, but you can change it. The code editor can also determine whether tabs or spaces are used on the previous or next line and copy the style.

You can determine whether the block indent style includes braces, or you can use the GNU indent style. The GNU style places braces on a separate line, indented by 2 spaces, except when they open a function definition, where they are not indented.

The following code snippet illustrates excluding braces from the indented block:

 void foobar(bool zoo)
 {
     if (zoo)
     {
         foo();
     }
 }

The following code snippet illustrates including braces in the indented block:

 void foobar(bool zoo)
 {
     if (zoo)
         {
         foo();
         }
 }

The following code snippet illustrates the GNU style:

 void foobar(bool zoo)
 {
   if (zoo)
     {
       foo();
     }
 }