Editor Settings

The Editor has three settings — text size, line numbers and line wrapping — at four levels: the Editor's defaults, an editor window, a project, and a single open file. An editor window can also keep its own glass. This page explains where each level is and which one wins.

The four levels#

A file's settings come from the most specific level that says something:

1. The file — This File in the editor window's Settings (the gear in its toolbar).
2. The project — Project Settings at the foot of the project's file list.
3. The window — This Window in the editor window's Settings.
4. The Editor's defaults — Settings ▸ Editor, also shown as All Editors in an editor window's Settings.

Each level stores only what you change. Anything left on Default, or that a window hasn't changed, follows the level above it, so when you change the Editor's defaults, every window, project and file that never disagreed follows the change.

On iPhone: there are no windows, so there is no This Window level, and Settings opens on This File.

Change the Editor's defaults#

1. Open the app's Settings and choose Editor.
2. Under Text, turn Show Line Numbers and Wrap Long Lines on or off.
3. Under Size, use Smaller and Larger to change Text Size, or Actual Size to return to 13 pt.

These apply to every open document and to documents opened later, in every editor window that doesn't keep its own. Text size ranges from 8 pt to 32 pt. With Wrap Long Lines off, a long line stays on one line and you scroll sideways to read the rest of it, on iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro as on Mac. The same controls are under All Editors in an editor window's Settings.

On Mac: you can also open Settings with ⌘, and change the default text size from the Text menu: Increase Text Size (⌘+), Decrease Text Size (⌘−) and Actual Size (⌘0). In a window that keeps its own Text Size, these change that window's size instead.

Give an editor window its own settings#

1. In the editor window, choose Settings (the gear in the toolbar). It opens on This Window.
2. Under Appearance, change Opacity, Glass and Material.
3. Under Text, change Text Size, Show Line Numbers and Wrap Long Lines.
4. Choose Done.

Each setting follows All Editors (or Appearance) until you change it here. Once you do, a small ↺ appears beside its name; choose it to follow again. Its tooltip says what it returns to: hold the pointer over it, or on Vision Pro look at it. Reset This Window, at the end, returns every one. Every document in the window changes at once. A project's or a file's own text settings still apply over the window's.

On Apple Vision Pro: the gear is in the row of controls below the window, and Appearance has Opacity and Glass, with no Material. Glass is the window's own glass, and Opacity paints the theme color across the whole window and under the text. At low settings the text is lightened, with a shade behind it where needed, so it stays readable whatever is behind the window. With both at 0% the window is completely clear apart from its text and controls.

The window keeps its settings with its project, on this device. Close the window and open the project again — after quitting the app too — and they're back. They don't sync to your other devices: the Editor's defaults and Appearance they stand in for are kept on each device too, and a project's own settings are what travel with it. A window with no project keeps its settings until you close it.

Change a project's settings#

1. With the project open, choose Project Settings (the gear) at the foot of its file list.
2. Under Text, choose Default, Show or Hide for Line Numbers, and Default, Wrap or Don't Wrap for Wrap Long Lines.
3. Use Smaller and Larger for Text Size, or Default to follow the window's or the Editor's size again.
4. Choose Done.

The text changes as you choose. A project's settings are stored with the project in the Projects list, so they follow the project to your other devices.

The same sheet is where you rename the project and choose Refresh Files.

Change one file's settings#

1. With the file in front, choose Settings (the gear in the toolbar), then This File.
2. Choose the same controls as for a project.
3. Choose Done.

A file's settings last while the file is open. When you close it, it goes back to following its project, its window or the Editor's defaults.

The footer of each section says what Default follows: the editor's defaults, this window's settings when the window keeps its own text settings, or the project's settings when the project has its own.

If no file is open, the section is This Project and shows the project's settings instead.

Appearance#

The Editor's colors follow the system's light or dark appearance. There is no separate setting for them, for every window or for one.