>If you want to use the settings as the default ones, you have to check "Apply to...". This will set the default settings for any *new* editor instance of a prg, method, etc. VFP won't however apply these settings for objects that have been previously saved to the resource file.
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Right. That's how much I figured out from this whole thing. My comment still is, why wouldn't this apply to *all* editor sessions?

I think it does not make sense that this setting was built based on the resource file.