Preferences Dialog
From the Preferences dialog, you can define preference settings for the Compose workspace, keyboard shortcuts, and user interface tools.
From the File menu, click Preferences to display the dialog.
Define a Preference Setting
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From the File menu, click Preferences to display the
dialog.
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Under the Category column, select the feature that you want to change the
settings for.
Upon selection, the Preference and Value options for the category are displayed on the right side of the dialog.
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The following selection methods can be used to define a preference:
- To enable a preference setting, activate the check box: .
- Click on a value to display a drop-down menu: .
- Click on a value to make a field editable and enter a new value:.
- Click on a value to display a dialog that contains additional options:
- Click on a color box to display the color palette:
- From Interactive Execution to interrupt the Python execution. , select
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From Step into installed modules in Python
scripts to debug Python files in Python modules that are in the
Compose installation or installed with
--user option
. , select
Keyboard Shortcuts
From the Preferences dialog, select Keyboard Shortcuts to view the default, editable shortcuts available in Compose.
The default keyboard shortcuts can be edited. Compose also
supports the following keyboard shortcuts that cannot be changed:
- Cycle through recent files
- Ctrl+Tab
- Indent block
- Tab
- Remove indent from block
- Shift+Tab
- Delete to start of word
- Ctrl+Backspace
- Delete to end of word
- Ctrl+Delete
- Delete to start of line
- Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
- Delete to end of line
- Ctrl+Shift+Delete
- Go to start of document
- Ctrl+Home
- Extend selection to start of document
- Ctrl+Shift+Home
- Go to start of display line
- Alt+Home
- Go to end of document
- Ctrl+End
- Extend selection to end of document
- Ctrl+Shift+End
- Go to end of display line
- Alt+End
- Clear command window
- Ctrl+L
- Line copy
- Ctrl+Shift+T
- Line delete
- Ctrl+Shift+L
- Line transpose with previous
- Ctrl+T
- Selection duplicate
- Ctrl+D
- Previous word (Shift extends selection)
- Ctrl+Left
- Next word (Shift extends selection)
- Ctrl+Right
- Rectangular block selection
- Alt+Shift+Movement