Appearance

Use this page to customize the appearance of the Editor.

Item	Description
Caret blinking (ms)	Select this checkbox to make the caret blink with the specified period (in milliseconds).
Use block caret	Select this checkbox to have the block caret applied in the Insert mode and the usual caret applied in the Overwrite mode. Clear this checkbox to have the usual caret applied in the Insert mode and the block caret applied in the Overwrite mode.
Show hard wrap guide (configured in Code Style options)	Select this checkbox to have a thin vertical line at the right margin of the editor displayed. Refer to the description of the Code Style settings.
Show line numbers	Select this checkbox to have line numbering shown in the left gutter area.
Show whitespaces	Select this checkbox to have MPS display white spaces or tabs (depending on the Code Style settings). You can select the following options: Leader - select this checkbox to add white spaces before your code line. Inner - select this checkbox to display white spaces inside the line of your code. Trailing - select this checkbox to display white spaces after the code line.
Show indent guides	Select this checkbox to have MPS display vertical lines in the editor to indicate positions of indents and thus facilitate typing, manual formatting, reading, and maintaining code.
Show code lens on scrollbar hover	Select this checkbox to enable the lens mode.
Show parameter name hints	If the checkbox is selected, the parameter name hints appear in the editor for SQL. For example, the column name hints may be shown for `SQL INSERT` statements. Here is how the same statement is shown when this checkbox is not selected. Click Configure to change the contents of the Blacklist.
Show CSS color preview icon in gutter	Select this checkbox to show color preview icons for the color values.
Show CSS color preview as background	If this checkbox is selected, the background of the color value shows the color preview:
Enable XML/HTML tag tree highlighting	Select this checkbox to show the hierarchy of tags highlighted with different colors. If this option is enabled, you can define the following options: Levels to highlight: specify the depth of hierarchy to be highlighted. Opacity: specify brightness of highlighting Highlighting is activated when there is more than one tag with the same name in the hierarchy.
Show closing labels in Dart source code	By default, MPS inserts autogenerated comments (closing labels) after the closing parentheses of objects within the `build()` method in Dart code. Clear the checkbox to suppress adding closing labels.

Last modified: 28 February 2020