You can customize the syntax highlighting theme in the Preferences window. See the next section Method Editor Preferences.

You can expand and collapse parts of the code corresponding to code blocks that are part of for, while, if, and else statements. This feature can be disabled, as described in Method Editor Preferences.

When writing code, use the Tab key on your keyboard to automatically indent a line of code and insert white spaces where needed. As an alternative, you can right-click in the Method Editor and select Indent and Format, as shown in the figure below.

Indentation and whitespace formatting also happen automatically when the keyboard focus leaves the Method Editor. You can disable this behavior in Preferences in the Method section by clearing the Indent and format automatically checkbox.

Using the context menu shown above, when right-clicking, you can toggle comments on and off for an entire block of code that you have selected. This is available by selecting Toggle Comment from the menu or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+7.

The Name of a method is a text string without spaces. The string can contain letters, numbers, and underscores. The reserved names root and parent are not allowed and Java® programming language keywords cannot be used.