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Eiffel Editor Preferences

The Eiffel category under the main Editor category contains preferences for Eiffel specific editor values. For example, here you can customize the behavour of autocompletion in the editor, syntax completion on Eiffel keywords, or the colors of Eiffel keywords.

Label in the preferences windowComplete Description
Auto-complete brackets and parenthesisBrackets and parentheses are closed automatically?
Auto-complete quotesQuotes are closed automatically?
Auto auto-completeAuto complete appears automatically?
Auto-complete wordsAutomatically completes words when a single best match is available?
Customized string 1User customized string.
Customized string 2User customized string.
Customized string 3User customized string.
Filter completion listCompletion list entries are filtered based on matches?
Once and constant in upperComplete once and constants with a first upper case character?
Show ANY featuresANY features appear in the feature call complete window?
Show completion signatureCompletion list shows feature signatures?
Show completion typeCompletion list shows return type?
Syntax complete enabledEnable syntax autocomplete?
Text mode is windowsText files format: True = Windows / False = UNIX.
Underscore is separatorUnderscore ' ' is a word separator?

Display Colors

Label in the preferences windowComplete Description
Normal text colorForeground color for normal text.
Normal background colorBackground color for normal text.
Selection text colorForeground color for selected text.
Selection background colorBackground color for selected text.
String text colorForeground color for manifest strings.
String background colorBackground color for manifest strings.
Keyword text colorForeground color for keywords.
Keyword background colorBackground color for keywords.
Spaces text colorForeground color for spaces.
Spaces background colorBackground color for spaces.
Comments text colorForeground color for comments.
Comments background colorBackground color for comments.
Number text colorForeground color for numbers.
Number background colorBackground color for numbers.
Operator text colorForeground color for operators.
Operator background colorBackground color for operators.
Breakpoint background colorColor for breakable marks and breakpoints.
Assertion tag text colorForeground color for assertion tags.
Assertion tag background colorBackground color for assertion tags.
Indexing tag text colorForeground color for indexing tags.
Indexing tag background colorBackground color for indexing tags.
Reserved text colorForeground color for reserved words.
Reserved background colorBackground color for reserved words.
Generic text colorForeground color for generics.
Generic background colorBackground color for generics.
Local text colorForeground color for locals.
Local background colorBackground color for locals.
Class text colorForeground color for classes.
Class background colorBackground color for classes.
Feature text colorForeground color for features.
Feature background colorBackground color for features.
Cluster text colorForeground color for clusters.
Cluster background colorBackground color for clusters.
Error text colorForeground color for errors.
Error background colorBackground color for errors.
Object text colorForeground color for objects.
Object background colorBackground color for objects.