You can set preferences that control the appearance and
function of the PL/I Editor.
All preferences are accessed by clicking . There are several
preferences that affect the PL/I editor. You can also access many
of these preferences by opening the PL/I Editor, right-mouse click
and from the pop-up menu click Preferences.
You can set the following preferences for the PL/I editor:
- The settings under General preference
are global settings that apply at the workbench level. The following
are some of these preferences that apply to the COBOL editor:
- The text font and color used by the editor.
- Content Types
- Associate resources with the editor
- File Associations
- Associate the editors available to edit a file with a certain
file extension, as well as the default editor to use.
- The PL/I preference contains settings that
are specific to the PL/I Editor.
- Editor
- There are several preferences under the Editor preference.
On the Editor preference page, you can define
which margins are displayed, where sequence numbers begin, and tab
stops, and enable locating matching parenthesis in source files.
Additional preference pages include the following.
- Formatter
- Specify format of code in the editor, such as capitalization,
indentation, and line length.
- Preprocessor Integration
- Customize the process for identifying preprocessor statements.
- Save Actions
- Configure editor save actions to occur when saving a source or
include file.
- Syntax Coloring
- Specify the appearance of code syntax in the editor.
- Task Tags
- Manage task tags used within the editor.
- Features
- Use this preferences page to modify the list of features that
can be added to programs created by the New COBOL Program wizard.
- Real-Time Syntax Checking
- Enable real-time syntax that causes programming errors to be identified
as you edit the file.
- Code Templates
- Create and manage code templates that are used to quickly add
common and constantly used code.
- The Data Management preference contains
settings for working with EXEC SQL statements in the editor.
- Define options for content assist and real-time syntax checking
for EXEC SQL statement while using the editor.
- The LPEX Editor preference contains settings
for the parser.
- Parsers
- Define parser name and class associations to the editor.