The Code Editor is a text editor which allows you to edit text, but has features that make it particularly well suited to editing code. You can open multiple code editors to view or edit the code in projects and copy and paste among them. The Windows menu contains a list of all open code editors..

The code editor supports the language of the source file that it is editing, showing code with syntax highlighting and offering smart indenting.

You can open a code editor in several ways, some of which are:

Elements of the code editor

The code editor is divided into several elements which are described here.