The Options menu

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#### 6.4.9 The Options menu

The ”Options” menu is the entry point for all dialogs that are used to set options for the compiler and the IDE, as well as the user preferences.

Mode
  Presents a dialog to set the current mode of the compiler. The current mode is shown at the right of the menu entry. For more information, see section 6.11.8, page 340.
Compiler
  Presents a dialog that can be used to set common compiler options. These options will be used when compiling a program or unit.
Memory sizes
  Presents a dialog where the stack size and the heap size for the program can be set. These options will be used when compiling a program.
Linker
  Presents a dialog where some linker options can be set. These options will be used when a program or library is compiled.
Debugger
  Presents a dialog where the debugging options can be set. These options are used when compiling units or programs. Note that the debugger will not work unless debugging information is generated for the program.
Directories
  Presents a dialog where the various directories needed by the compiler can be set. These directories will be used when a program or unit is compiled.
Browser
  Presents a dialog where the browser options can be set. The browser options affect the behavior of the symbol browser of the IDE.
Tools
  Presents a dialog to configure the tools menu. For more information, see section 6.10.5, page 280.
Environment
  Presents a dialog to configure the behavior of the IDE. A sub menu is presented with the various aspects of the IDE:
  Preferences
    General preferences, such as whether to save files automatically or not, and which files should be saved. The video mode can also be set here.
  Editor
    Controls various aspects of the edit windows.
  CodeComplete
    Used to set the words which can be automatically completed when typing in the editor windows.
  Codetemplates
    Used to define code templates, which can be inserted in an edit window.
  Desktop
    Used to control the behavior of the desktop, i.e. several features can be switched on or off.
  Keyboard & Mouse
    Can be used to select the cut/copy/paste convention, control the actions of the mouse, and to assign commands to various mouse actions.
  Learn keys
    Let the IDE learn keystrokes to be assigned to various commands. This is useful mostly on linux and Unix-like platforms, where the actual keys sent to the IDE depend on the terminal emulation.
Open
  Presents a dialog in which a file containing editor preferences can be selected. After the dialog is closed, the preferences file will be read and the preferences will be applied.
Save
  Saves the current options in the default file.
Save as
  Saves the current options in an alternate file. A file selection dialog box will be presented in which the alternate settings file can be specified.

Please note that options are not saved automatically. They should be saved explicitly with the ”Options—Save” command.

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