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| <div role="main"><h1>Typing preferences</h1> |
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| <p>Use the <img src="../images/command_link.png" alt="" > <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.cdt.ui.preferences.SmartTypingPreferencePage)")'>Typing</a> preference panel to assist in formatting input as you type.</p> |
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| <caption><strong>Typing Preference Options</strong></caption> |
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| <th id="option"><strong>Option</strong></th> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>"Strings"</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, automatically close string quotes.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>(Parenthesis) and [square] brackets</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, automatically close parenthesis and square brackets.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong><Angle> brackets</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, automatically close angle brackets.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>{Braces}</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, automatically close curly braces.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>Tab key adjusts indentation of the current line</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, indent the current line when the tab key is pressed.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>Adjust indentation</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">Adjust the indentation of pasted text to match the current indentation level.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>Wrap automatically</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">Enable to automatically wrap string literals when they exceed the max line length.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>Escape text when pasting into a literal string</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, special characters in pasted strings are escaped when pasted into an existing string literal.</td> |
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| <td headers="option"><strong>New lines and braces</strong></td> |
| <td headers="description">If enabled, a new line or brace will be indented according to the <a href="cdt_u_c_code_style_pref.htm">Code Style preferences</a>. |
| If disabled, the default Text Editor indentation strategy is applied (copy indent from previous line)</td> |
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