The Editor window and its layout


The Editor contains source code that is syntactically colored. Different colors signify different text properties. For example, by default all keywords are shown in blue and all comments in light gray. Guarded text generated by the Form Editor has a blue background by default and cannot be edited.

A faint vertical line in the Editor marks a suggested right margin for your text. By default, it is set at 80 characters from the left margin. You can adjust this setting as well as its color in the Global Options window on the Expert tab of the Editor Settings / Java Editor property sheet. See Editor settings by type of editor.

The bottom of the Editor window has one or more tabs used to view different documents. From each of these tabs, the document can be saved, closed, docked or undocked, and cloned. For more details on managing windows, see Window management.


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