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can have more than one project open simultaneously Each project can have more than one build target. For example, a target to build a library and a target to build an application using that library You can quickly create a new project by using one of the ready-made templates, b y clicking on "Project/New" You can zoom in and out in the editor by holding Control while rolling the mouse wheel You can change the colours of the editor by either using "Settings/Editor/Colour s" or right-clicking inside the editor and click "Configure editor" You can create a duplicate of the line the caret is on, by pressing Ctrl+D You can indent / unindent blocks of text using the TAB and SHIFT-TAB keys You can press F2 and Shift-F2 to hide the messages and manager pane respectively You can easily find/open files as you type in the project tree by pressing ALT-G . (similar to desktop-search) You can close all open files by pressing Ctrl-Shift-F4 You can close a tab by clicking it with the middle mouse button You can perform a quick search to Google, Google Code or MSDN by holding Ctrl an d right-clicking the text you want to search You can enable full command line logging in: Settings -> Compiler and Debugger > Tab "Other" -> Compiler logging = "Full command line"