General page (Preferences dialog box)

Specify number of combo box history. EditPlus maintains history of text that you entered in combo box. When you type text in the combo box, EditPlus will search the list and help you complete the remaining part of the text. If you enter 0 in this field, the combo box auto completion feature will not be used.

Specify delimiters that are used to determine work boundaries. You don't need to specify the space character and the tab character here, since those are treated as delimiter by default. This option can be overridden by #DELIMITER setting in the syntax file.

Check this option to save the list of all open files and the cursor positions on exit. EditPlus reloads these files when it starts next time.

Check this option to save unsaved documents to temporary file on exit and restore them on next startup.

Check this option to save/restore the window size, cursor/marker positions and the encoding of the document for 50 recent files.

Check this option to allow multiple instances of EditPlus to run at the same time.

Check this option to use XHTML tags instead of HTML tags in the template and the HTML toolbar.

Check this option to close brace automatically when you type HTML tags.

Check this option to turn off message beep sounds.

Check this option to restore previous directory when running File Open dialog box.

Check this option to move the cursor to the first non-space character when pressing the HOME key.

Check this option to create a new document on startup when there is no other active document.

Check this option to use EditPlus with the View Source command of Internet Explorer.

This option registers a shell extension which adds EditPlus command to the Context menu of the file in Explorer.