## The Buffer Options Dialog Box

Utilities>Buffer Options displays a dialog box for changing editor settings on a per-buffer basis. Changes made in this dialog box are not retained after the buffer is closed.

The following settings can be changed here:

- The line separator (see the section called “Line Separators”)

- The character encoding (see the section called “Character Encodings”)

- If the file should be GZipped on disk (see the section called “Opening Files”)

- The edit mode (see the section called “Edit Modes”)

- The fold mode (see the section called “Folding”)

- The wrap mode and margin (see the section called “Wrapping Long Lines”)

- The tab width (see the section called “Tabbing and Indentation”)

- The indent width

- If soft tabs should be used (see the section called “Tabbing and Indentation”)