You can use the settings in
Tools > Options > Text Editor >
COBOL and on the
Miscellaneous page to configure some additional features such as the formatting or some of the tooltips.
- Formatting
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- Case format for identifiers
- Specifies the case format of the identifiers in the built assembly.
- Case format for reserved words
- Specifies the case format of the COBOL reserved words in the built assembly.
- Misc
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- Background syntax check timeout
- Specifies the response time (in seconds) after which the background parse is aborted.
- Copybook extensions
- Specifies the file extensions that are recognized as copybook files. Separate the extensions by a comma.
Note: To ensure the file extensions will be recognized as COBOL copybooks, you also need to associate them with the COBOL language (from
Tools > Options > Text Editor > File Extensions) and then add them to your project properties (type
copyext(ext1,ext2) in
Additional Directives on the
COBOL page in your project's properties).
- Customize editor for COBOL
- Enables features that facilitate COBOL development, for example pressing
Tab in the editor to position the cursor on the eighth column.
- Debug tooltip style for subscripted OCCURS items
- Specifies what information should be displayed by the debug tooltip.
- Expandable tooltip
- Choose this if you wish the tooltip to display the elements of arrays.
- Value of expression
- Choose this if you wish the tooltip to display the value of the current expression.
- Note: You can switch between the two styles of the tooltip in the editor. To do this, press and hold
Ctrl and hover over the data item to display the alternative tooltip.
- Enable automatic outlining
- Enables the outlining of the code.
- Enable background syntax checking
- Enables automatic syntax checking of the code as you type.
