Change Edit settings in CotEditor on Mac

Set the character used for indentation and for the Tab key. Choose one of the following:

• Spaces: Insert multiple space characters based on the indent width.
• Tabs: Insert a single tab character.

Set the number of spaces that a tab character represents.

Detect whether the opened document uses spaces or tabs for indentation. If the style can be detected, CotEditor automatically adjusts whether typing the Tab key expands to spaces. If there are not enough indented lines to detect the style, the default setting is used.

Automatically indent new lines when you press Return or Enter. The new line begins at the same indentation level as the previous line.

When you press the Tab key while text is selected, the selected lines are indented instead of being replaced with whitespace. When you press Tab-Shift keys, the selected lines are outdented.

When enabled, CotEditor automatically removes whitespace at the end of lines while you edit.

Also apply trailing-whitespace trimming to lines that contain only whitespace.

When commenting out text, place the comment delimiter after the lowest indentation level within the selection.

When commenting out text, insert a space between the comment delimiter and the commented text.

Highlight URLs in the document and make them clickable.

Briefly highlight the matching brace when the insertion point moves across one of a pair of braces such as “()”, “[]”, or “{}”.

Highlight all instances of the selected text in the editor after the specified delay. Highlighting occurs only when the selected text is a complete word.

Set the delay, in seconds, before matching words are highlighted when Highlight instances of selected text is enabled.