Editor enhancements

[bcoulam]

Marco,

There are two reasons I still do most of my heavy-duty programming and editing in [insert favorite editor here; ours is UltraEdit]. If you could see to include them in a future release, I'd be most grateful.

1) Context-sensitive File Open dialog:
Sometimes I've got 15 files open at once from several different projects. In UE (UltraEdit), the File Open and File Save dialogs detect which directory to start in depending on the current active file in the editor. In PSD (PL/SQL Developer), only the File Save dialog is sensitive.

Ideally, I'd also love the traditional Ctrl+O to open the File Open dialog, defaulting to the Program File option.

Did we every resolve whether I could bind keys to the Uppercase, Lowercase functions?

2) Column mode
So often I find myself needing to select and do operations in column mode, especially when tinkering with parameter and column lists. If you're not familiar with this very handy feature of powerful text editors, I'd be happy to explain. Unfortunately, I don't think it would be trivial to add.

A third, but trivial thing is the Find/Replace functionality. It doesn't wrap. It starts after the current selected text or cursor position. If there were an option to wrap or start from top of file, that would get them all.

Thanks!

(We havent' upgraded to 5.1 yet, so my apologies if any of these are already improved).

 

[patch]

bcoulam wrote:

2) Column mode
So often I find myself needing to select and do operations in column mode, especially when tinkering with parameter and column lists. If you're not familiar with this very handy feature of powerful text editors, I'd be happy to explain. Unfortunately, I don't think it would be trivial to add.

Do you use this to add -- before the lines? There is a plug-in available at the plug-ins site for this 'problem'

A third, but trivial thing is the Find/Replace functionality. It doesn't wrap. It starts after the current selected text or cursor position. If there were an option to wrap or start from top of file, that would get them all.

There is actually an option to start from top (or bottom). Check the two arrows in the lower right corner of the find and replace window.

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[This message has been edited by patch (edited 05 February 2003).]

 

[Marco Kalter]

I have added the context sensitive file open dialog to the enhancement requests. Currently it always puts you back in the directory of the last opened program file.

You can bind any function key to File Open, Uppercase Selection, and Lowercase Selection (Tools > Preferences > Key configuration).

Column editing is available. See chapter 14.2 in the user's guide. You can select a column by holding down Alt and making a selection with the mouse. After that, you can copy, cut, delete or paste the column selection.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

 

[Jean-Paul Finne]

I'd like an easier way to retrieve my favorites commands.

The project window could contains links to external files.
or there could be an explorer window showing the content of a few directories

 

[Marco Kalter]

There is a NamedSQL and NamedSQL(DB) Plug-In available on the PL/SQL Developer Add-ons page. The first stores frequently used code on the file system, the second one stores it in the database. Maybe this provides the functionality you need?

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

 

[rbrooker]

you could also use the shortcuts plugin by tiger. for example, i have "-instance" as a shortcut for "select * form sys.v$instance" to ensure i am on the correct database etc. much easier to type in a shortcut than the whole statement

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