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If you turn on the Display Status Window option, a small floating window will appear
when you type an Emacs shortcut, indicating which command you have applied.
Exchange Command and Option Key Behavior
These two checkboxes let you swap the meaning of the Option and Command keys
when used with cursor navigation keys to move through a window’s contents. You can
set this separately for horizontal and vertical cursor movement. For details on using
cursor navigation keys, see Chapter 4 and Appendix B.
Extra Space in Text Views
To have BBEdit leave extra empty space when you scroll to the end of a text view,
choose Half Window or Full Window here.
Allow Text Smoothing
This option is available only on Mac OS X. If turned on, it allows the system to draw
smoothed (anti-aliased) text in text-editing views; otherwise, text smoothing is
suppressed, which may make certain fonts and sizes more readable.
Prior to OS X 10.1.5, the text smoothing is done by QuickDraw; in 10.1.5 or later, it is
done by Quartz. Note that Quartz text smoothing may have no visible effect on some
specific fonts and sizes (for example, Monaco 9).
Note
During initial configuration, if you are running on Mac OS X and Quartz Extreme is not
supported on all displays, the “Allow Text Smoothing” preference will be turned off. You can
turn it back on again if you are willing to pay the price of slower performance on nonaccelerated displays or Mac OS X 10.1.x.
Enable Unicode Input
In general, you should leave this option on, or else you will not be able to use the Mac
OS X character palette, nor will you be able to use Unicode keyboard layouts. However,
some input methods (most notably, Japanese) may generate the wrong character unless
you turn off this option.
Text Encodings Preferences
new in 7.0.2
When opening documents, BBEdit can now automatically recognize and appropriately
handle files that use character set encodings other than Mac Roman, even multi-byte
character sets.
The Text Encodings preferences let you choose which character set encodings appear in
the pop-up menus that list encodings. These pop-up menus are:
• The Read As pop-up menu in the Open dialog
• The Encoding pop-up menu in the Options dialog within the Save dialog
• The Encoding submenu of the status bar’s File Options pop-up menu
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Chapter 10: Preferences