10.3.4.1 General Settings
This dialog box lets you change global settings for the Visual Studio Code and Text Editor. To display this dialog box, click Options on the Tools menu, expand the Text Editor folder, and click General.
Settings
Drag and Drop Text Editing
When selected, this enables you to move the text by selecting and dragging the text with the mouse to another location within the current document or any other open document.
Automatic Delimiter Highlighting
When selected, delimiter characters that separate parameters or item-value pairs, as well as matching braces, are highlighted.
Track Changes
When selected, the code editor's selection margin displays a vertical yellow line to mark code recently changed and vertical green lines next to unchanged code.
Auto-Detect UTF-8 Encoding Without Signature
By default, the editor detects encoding by searching for byte order marks or charset tags. If neither is found in the current document, the code editor attempts to auto-detect UTF-8 encoding by scanning byte sequences. To disable the auto-detection of encoding, clear this option.
Display
Selection Margin
When selected, a vertical margin along the left edge of the editor's text area is displayed. You can click this margin to select an entire line of text or click and drag to select consecutive lines of text.
Indicator Margin
When selected, a vertical margin outside the left edge of the editor's text area is displayed. When you click on this margin, an icon and ToolTip related to the text appear. For example, breakpoint or task list shortcuts appear in the indicator margin. Indicator Margin information does not print.
Vertical Scroll Bar
When selected, a vertical scrollbar that allows you to scroll up and down to view elements that fall outside the viewing area of the Editor is displayed. If vertical scrollbars are not available, you can use the Page Up, Page Down, and cursor keys to scroll.
Horizontal Scroll Bar
When selected, a horizontal scrollbar that allows you to scroll from side to side to view elements that fall outside the viewing area of the Editor is displayed. If horizontal scrollbars are unavailable, you can use the cursor keys to scroll.