Accessibility

You can adjust colors if you have red-green color vision deficiency. In this case, code fragments such as errors that are usually highlighted in red or strings that are usually green, will change the color to accommodate your needs (red will change to orange, green will change to blue). The color of the progress bar in the test runner will also get adjusted so it can be easily recognized.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, in the UI Options section, select the Adjust colors for red-green vision deficiency (protanopia, deuteranopia) option and click OK to save your changes.

You can adjust colors for code elements, errors, elements of the editor, and tool windows.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options list on the right, select what you want to adjust the color for. For example, you can select Code and adjust colors for injected language fragments or matched braces, etc. Click OK to save changes.

You can also adjust colors for debugger, consoles and other parts of IDE: simply select the appropriate node in the list of options located in Settings / Preferences | Editor | Color Scheme.

You can override the default fonts of the UI elements.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, in the UI options section, select Override default fonts by (not recommended) and specify the font name and its size. Click OK to save changes.

You can resize the actual tool windows vertically or horizontally using shortcuts.

1. To resize vertically up or down, press ⇧⌘↑ or ⇧⌘↓.
2. To resize horizontally left or right, press ⇧⌘← or ⇧⌘→.

You can change font and a size of the text in the editor.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, select the Change font size (Zoom) with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel option to quickly change the text size (turning the mouse wheel) while you are working in the editor.
3. If you need to specify the exact font size, select Editor | Font.
4. From the options on the right, specify the font, its size, line spacing, and other available options. Click OK to save changes.

You can configure custom shortcuts to actions that you frequently use.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the list of options on the right such as menus, actions, and tools, select the action you need.
3. Right-click the selected item and from the context menu, select an action you want to perform such as Add keyboard shortcut, Add mouse shortcut, or Add abbreviation.
4. In the dialog that opens, specify a shortcut. If you need, select the Second stroke option and specify an additional key for the shortcut. Click OK to save changes.

Please note that you can ignore a conflict and assign a shortcut to several actions. However, it is strongly recommended that you avoid binding two actions with the same shortcut, because the priority of these actions is not defined.

You can configure the behavior of the smart keys.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, select or clear the smart keys options, for example, you can clear the Insert paired brackets or Insert paired quotes option that automatically inserts closing bracket or a quote since it might not be useful when you use a screen reader. Click OK to save changes.

You can disable the automatic code completion to avoid an auto-insertion of code elements when you work in the editor with a screen reader.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, clear the Smart Type Completion option. If you need, clear the Basic Completion to disable the basic completion as well.

You can control the code folding behavior and specify what should or should not be folded.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, select what should be collapsed by default.

You can configure spaces, tabs and indents.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, click Tabs and Indents to configure tabs or Spaces to configure where and how to use spaces.
3. Click OK to save changes.

You can adjust the mouse focus mode.

1. Press ⌘, to open the Settings/Preferences dialog and then go to .
2. From the options on the right, select the Automatically position mouse cursor on default button checkbox.
3. Click OK to save changes.