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Configure the text editor settings

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Configure the text editor settings

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- [Instructor] I'll wager that you have a strong preference for code editor settings. For example, if you liked small tab sizes, you'll probably want that setting to be consistent in every editor, whether you're writing in JavaScript or C#, creating HTML or writing JSON. Before I open up the settings dialogue, I want to enable view white space, so I'll go up to search, visual studio, look for view white space, there it is. Now, you can see the visible indicator over here where my tabs are on the screen. Next, we'll open up tools options. And the place we'll be looking at in tools options is in text editor, all languages. Any changes I make here affect all the code editors: the basic editor, the C# editor, the C++ editor, and all the rest. My first change is to make smaller tabs. I think that makes it easier to read the code because you can see more of it on the screen, so I'll set this to two units and this one to two units. I'll explain what the rest of these do later in the course…

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