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Explore the basic display settings for editors

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Explore the basic display settings for editors

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- [Instructor] We'll start by looking at where to find the editor settings. When I'm talking about editors, I'm talking about these windows where you write your code or your markup language. And the settings are what affect the appearance of this code window. For example, when I use the Up and Down arrows to move my cursor, you'll see that there's a gray line above and below my cursor point. That helps me see the entire line and helps me find my location at a glance. I can also see this dotted line drawn between the curly braces. When I'm changing the settings, I can turn on and off these different features. And it's per language. So right now I'm in a C# editor, but I can also change the settings for my Visual Basic files or all the editors like my XML file editor. You can find these settings in Tools, Options. And then you go to the Text Editor section. So there's three major categories. There's the General section. If I make changes here, they affect all the editor windows. Second…

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