Wednesday 29 July 2015

CFB profiles and Preferences

CFB profiles and Preferences

Profiles is one of my favourite features of CFB3. It allows you to keep separate preferences as schemes(profiles we call it). For example when you are developing or writing code, you want to see your comments in yellow but when you demo your application you want to keep your comments in grey so they are not catchy. You don't have to change your comment colors always but you just have to switch your profile. To be specific you can maintain different color schemes, code-assist preferences, typing preferences, task tags, outline and syntax checking preferences with different profiles. For most developers modifying these small preferences increase their productivity, so trust me these are very helpful.

Here we will talk about how to maintain different profiles and also a bit about all these preferences that you can modify and play with and will be starting with Code Assist Preferences. To find them in CFB open Window->Preferences in your menubar. A preferences dialog will open. On left panel you have to reach to "ColdFusion->Profiles->Editor->Code Assist". On clicking it, in right panel you will see all related preferences.

Code Asisst:
For most of preferences, you will be able to understand what they do by their name, like in case of Code Assist they will help you modify what you see in code assist and how you get it and some related stuff.