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In the Advanced options menu, and the Editor panel, one of the choices is the "Fortran Editor". This choice should be visible only when Fortran editing is provided. In NetBeans 6 it is not, and so these options should not be visible.
We will consider adding Fortran support for a future release and at that point this property may be necessary. Also, the Sun Studio IDE product (which uses NetBeans as a platform) add advanced modules which implement Fortran support. That product takes advantage of this property. It may therefore make sense to leave it in the product.
not actual since NB 6.5