Deletion of new lines in the editor

[TealDuck]

Most program editing tools I work with have the following behavior:

Positioning the cursor on the last character of the line and pressing delete will remove the newline sequence (LF or CRLF) and all leading white space from the next line. This gives the user the beginning of the content from the next line right where the cursor is.

PSD just deletes the newline sequence and sometimes even inserts a space. Maybe you can put it to a vote to your users but I would think most would prefer the way the other editors behave.

 

[Marco Kalter]

I cannot reproduce this. The leading spaces of the next line are preserved when I press delete at the end of the previous line.

Can you let me know your PL/SQL Developer version, as well as a screenshot of your editor preferences?

 

[TealDuck]

The behavior you are seeing is THE issue. When deleting new lines I would think it would be preferable to delete the leading spaces as you would not need the indentation on a combined line.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Okay, I see. I have added this to the list of enhancement requests.

 

[mobailey]

That would be great to fix this - thanks.

It's a problem I experience dozens of times a day, but I've just put up with it without even thinking about it before now.

-mobailey