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Beautify Options Dialog Box

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Makes it possible for you to specify capitalization and indentation styles for program code appearing in an editing window. When a program file is open in the editing window, selecting the Beautify command from the Tools menu opens the Beautify Options dialog box.

Capitalization

  • Keywords
    Provides ways to format keywords: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Mixed Case, or No change

  • Symbols
    Provides ways to represent symbols: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Match with first occurrence, or No change.

    Match with first occurrence only affects the symbols available within the current editing window.

Indentation

  • Types of indent
    Provides ways to indent text using Tabs, Spaces, or No Change.

    When selecting Spaces, type or select the number of spaces used to indent the text.

  • Text to indent
    Makes it possible for you to specify what types of text should be indented.

    Comment   Indents all text lines beginning with the comment identifier (*).

    Continuation lines   Indents lines following the semicolon (;), which indicates the first line continuation mark. The indentation for Continuation lines continues at the same level until a new command line is entered.

  • Extra indent beneath
    Provides extra indentation for the lines following the beginning of procedures and DO CASE control structures.

See Also

Editing Window | _BEAUTIFY System Variable | Macros Dialog Box