The properties dialog is accessed via View→Properties. The application properties determine visual properties of m, and its behaviour with respect to the system.
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The individual properties are:
| mfont | The m console font. A font with a leading asterisk is scalable. |
| points | The size of the font in pixels. This is ignored if the font is not scalable. |
| fgcolor | The foreground (text) color of console and editor. |
| bgcolor | The background color of console and editor. |
| outsize | Size of console buffer in characters. |
| encoding | The encoding for source files: typical choices are bom and utf-8; other options are utf-16le, utf-16be and 8-bit. See section * (Reference) for details. |
| keep | Select whether system exit requests are ignored; if set to busy, requests are ignored if any script is running. |
| phone | Your own phone number, to be assigned to gsm.number. |
See appendix * (Reference) for details about properties.