More Editor Options...

(Config > Options... > Editor > More Editor Options...)

Print 2 columns in landscape

Format: editprint2column

Default: On

Print files in landscape mode, with two pages per sheet.

Temp file directory

Format: tempfiledir

Default: (blank, looks for TMPDIR,TEMP environment vars, resorts to /tmp.)

Directory used for temporary editor files.

Initial width in characters

Format: editwidth

Default: 80

Initial width of the internal MULTI editor in characters. This option is only useful when the rememberwindowpositions option is off. See also "Save window positions and sizes".

Initial height in characters

Format: editheight

Default: 32

Initial height of the internal MULTI editor in characters (ie. lines). This option is only useful when the rememberwindowpositions option is off. See also "Save window positions and sizes".

Selection margin width in pixels

Format: selectionmarginwidth

Default: 13

Width of the left margin of the editor. If the width is 0, the left margin does not appear, and text can no longer be selected by line using the margin. Changing the selection margin width does not affect already open editors, only new editors.

Generate auto-recover file every ... seconds

Format: editincrfrequency

Default: 120

The editor creates auto-recover files every so often, in case the power goes out or the editor crashes. If this happens, the next time you open the editor on the file it will give you the option to restore to the auto-recover file. This option sets the frequency at which the editor generates these auto-recover files.

Per File Settings Defaults

The settings in this section apply to files when the files are first opened. You can use View > Per File Settings... in the Editor to modify these settings on a per-file basis. However, changes to these settings will also affect already open files, so you have to make the changes on a per-file basis after you make any desired changes to the defaults.

Spaces per indent for Ada

Format: adaindentsize

Default: 3

Number of spaces in an indent for Ada files.

Ada continuation line indent

Format: adacontinuationsize

Default: 2

Number of spaces in the indent for a continuation line in Ada files.

Word wrap

Format: wordwrap

Default: Off

Automatically split lines on word boundaries as you type.

Wrap column

Format: wrapcolumn

Default: 79

When wordwrap is on, this is the last column that will be used before wrapping to the next line unless a single word is so long that it can't fit within this many columns, in which case it will be put on a line by itself.

Wrap indent offset

Format: wrapindent

Default: 2

When a word wrap to the next line occurs, the line is automatically indented this many extra spaces from where it would normally appear.

Alternate Editor Options

Allows you to use a third-party editor in MULTI.

Use Alternate editor

Format: usealternateeditor

Default: Off

When enabled, MULTI invokes an external editor instead of using the internal one.

Use xterm for alternate editor

Format: usextermforalternateeditor

Default: Off

When enabled, MULTI runs the alternate editor within a newly created xterm.

Executable

Format: editor

Default: me

Name of the alternate editor executable, with full path if the directory isn't in your path.

Command line arguments

Format: editorlaunch

Default: (blank)

Command line arguments for the alternate editor, not including the name of the editor itself. There are three special strings in editorlaunch that get replaced with useful information for the alternate editor. "Third party editors" contains the required configuration of these three strings for some common editors.

%file0 - Replaced with the first file MULTI is opening.

%line - Replaced by the line number the first file should be opened to.

%files - Replaced by a space separated list of all the files other than the first one. There is no mechanism for conveying what line numbers to open these files to.


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