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The Code Editor

Qt Creator's code editor is designed to aid the developer in creating, editing, and navigating code. It is fully equipped with syntax highlighting, code completion, context sensitive help, and inline error indicators while you are typing.

Code Editor Configuration

The screenshots below show the various dialogs within which you can configure your editor.

Code Completion

The completion popup shows possible completions to a certain statement. These completions include classes, namespaces, functions, variables, macros and keywords. Listed below are the icons used in the completion box and their meaning.

	A class
	An enum
	An enumerator (value of an enum)
	A function
	A private function
	A protected function
	A variable
	A private variable
	A protected variable
	A signal
	A slot
	A private slot
	A protected slot
	A keyword
	A macro
	A namespace

External Editor

To switch to an external editor, select Open in external editor from the Edit > Advanced menu.

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