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This is currently not possible. Someone could write a Plug-In for this though...
William Robertson
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Marco,
In your reply to a recent post " Tools Configuration ", you said it had been added to the list of enhancement requests? i.e. provide a temporary editfile (or expose the system that PL/SQL Dev presumably uses internally) to allow external tools to access currently displayed text without the user having to save it as a named file and delete afterwards. This would be very useful!
In your reply to a recent post " Tools Configuration ", you said it had been added to the list of enhancement requests? i.e. provide a temporary editfile (or expose the system that PL/SQL Dev presumably uses internally) to allow external tools to access currently displayed text without the user having to save it as a named file and delete afterwards. This would be very useful!
Stew Stryker
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As if anyone cares...
When I first started using Dev last year, I thought the editor was weak. I really wanted to be able to edit in UltraEdit, my favorite.
But now I wouldn't bother.
The only feature that the source editor lacks that I'd use UltraEdit for is editing by column, where you can select starting at column 10 of row 1 and select through column 20 of that row, then drag down to row 5 and have columns 10-20 selected for those 6 rows. Very handy for stripping out junk or inserting 'INSERT INTO
...'.
Otherwise I think it's as good as any freebie editor I've seen for editing Oracle source.
When I first started using Dev last year, I thought the editor was weak. I really wanted to be able to edit in UltraEdit, my favorite.
But now I wouldn't bother.
The only feature that the source editor lacks that I'd use UltraEdit for is editing by column, where you can select starting at column 10 of row 1 and select through column 20 of that row, then drag down to row 5 and have columns 10-20 selected for those 6 rows. Very handy for stripping out junk or inserting 'INSERT INTO
Otherwise I think it's as good as any freebie editor I've seen for editing Oracle source.
Column editing is available. Hold down the Alt-key while selecting text with the mouse to select a column. You can subsequently copy, cut, delete or paste it, or perform any other text selection function.
Stew Stryker
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Eh? Wow, you're right! Don't know how I missed that feature! Thanks!
TenGor
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Hy,
>Column editing is available.
But not so quite nice as in Oracle Forms Developer:
There you can select the text as you describe, but than you can insert text just typing it.
In PL/SQL Dev. the cursor just jumps to one line (first/last) and the selection is gone.
So this would an other very nice enhancement ;-)
>Column editing is available.
But not so quite nice as in Oracle Forms Developer:
There you can select the text as you describe, but than you can insert text just typing it.
In PL/SQL Dev. the cursor just jumps to one line (first/last) and the selection is gone.
So this would an other very nice enhancement ;-)
What happens with the marked column when you start typing?
Marco,
I think Ultra-Edit works the same way as TenGor described. Here is an example.
http://myprecious.info/tmp/col_mode_edit.avi
I think Ultra-Edit works the same way as TenGor described. Here is an example.
http://myprecious.info/tmp/col_mode_edit.avi
Thanks, a movie says more than a thousand words. You type really slow though 
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William Robertson
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Also the alt-select feature gets confused when it hits a tab character.
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