General configuration options

Here you can customize several options, such as the what an editor will do at a new line (indentation or not), which font to use, whether or not a backup copy should be made, the language definition, etc.

 

This tab allows you to change:

1.   Whether the editor will make a backup of the old version when saving a file. This backup file contains the text of the file as it was before saving and has the same name as the saved file, with a different extension (xxx).

2.   Whether the editor shows the floating toolbar. This toolbar will show the names of all loaded files so that you can quickly change from one file to the next. This is useful when you have a large number of files loaded.

3.   Whether the editor saves the changes to its configuration when quitting. This can be turned off if you have modified parameters you do not want to keep for future sessions.

4.   Whether the editor will indent automatically when you press the carriage return.

5.   Whether the editor will check for syntax errors like mismatched parentheses or brackets when saving a file.

6.   Whether the size of the fonts in the output window should be small or normal.

7.   Whether the editor will save all modified files before starting a build.

8.   Vertical scroll options. You can use three modes of downward/upward scrolling when you use the up/down arrow in your keyboard. You can have the normal scroll, i.e., one line at a time, or ‘smooth’ scrolling, where Wedit moves scrolls a smaller fraction of a line each time, and ‘very smooth’, where Wedit scrolls through the text slowly.

9.   The tab size: You enter a number between 1 and 8 here.

10.Auto save. If enabled, the editor will save the modified files regularly every 3 minutes. The saved files are in \lcc\autosave.

 

 

The current directory. Use the edit field at the bottom of the tab to change it.

 

Change the location where Wedit will look for the compiler if you moved it to another location or you want to use another version of the compiler; a version that you compiled yourself for instance.