Bug? Copy-paste does not work in macros

[Claus Pedersen]

I have made a macro by pressing F11:

I hold shift down while using right-arrow once (one character is marked). I then use ctrl-c to copy, and use right-arrow again to go to next character and press ctrl-v to insert.

I press F11 to stop recording.

Now, when I press F12 to execute the macro, nothing is copied or inserted, the cursor just moves one character to the right.

Why?

Here are my settings:

PL/SQL Developer
Version 7.1.5.1400
01.47184 - 20 user license
Windows XP Professional 5.1 Build 2600 (Service Pack 2)

Physical memory : 2.050.280 kB (1.287.860 available)
Paging file : 3.988.244 kB (3.470.340 available)
Virtual memory : 2.097.024 kB (2.009.764 available)

Parameters
C:\Program Files\PLSQL Developer\plsqldev.exe
editormacro

Preferences
Session mode: Multi
OCI Library:
Use OCI7: False

Preference Files
C:\Program Files\PLSQL Developer\Preferences\Default\Default.ini
C:\Program Files\PLSQL Developer\Preferences\CP\default.ini

Plug-Ins

Aliases
LMCNT
ORA09
ORA10

Homes
DEFAULT_HOME (C:\orant)

DLLs
C:\orant\bin\oci.dll
C:\orant\bin\ORA803.DLL
C:\orant\bin\ORA804.DLL
C:\orant\bin\ORA805.DLL
C:\orant\bin\ora805.dll_bak

TNS File
C:\orant\Net80\Admin\tnsnames.ora

Using
Home: DEFAULT_HOME
DLL: C:\orant\bin\oci.dll
OCI: Version 8.0
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0

Character Sets
Character size: 1 byte(s)
CharSetID: 178
NCharSetID: 2000
Unicode Support: True
NLS_LANG: AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_CHARACTERSET: WE8MSWIN1252
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET: AL16UTF16

 

[Claus Pedersen]

Hello Marco,

Is this a known bug and is there a work-around?

 

[Marco Kalter]

This seems to be caused by the editormacro command-line parameter. We're looking into this.

 

[Claus Pedersen]

Any news on this? Will this be fixed before version 8?

It is quite annoying that simple copy-paste operations does not work in macros.

 

[Juca Pirama]

Its a shame, because its nearly impossible to work with macros without editormacro parameter.
That's why I still copying to EditPlus, do the macros there, and then paste again on PL/SQL.