Configuring Background Parsing

The code you type is parsed continuously to identify errors. The errors are underlined with red squiggly lines.

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You can turn off background parsing, but many of the IDE features depend on it, including outline and colorized text. If it is switched off these features will not work and might cause unexpected problems.

Switching off or delaying background parsing when Eclipse is running: You can turn off background parsing in the Preferences dialog box (select Window > Preferences > Micro Focus > JCL > Editor and deselect Background parsing).
Parsing is triggered when there is a pause in editing code; by default this is 500 milliseconds. By keeping Background parsing selected and entering a larger value in the Trigger delay field, you can make sure your code is parsed less frequently, and improve performance when developing projects with large numbers of source files.