how to disable autocompletion and column datatype description?

[amonti]

Hi,

I would like to disable the automatic completion : it can make PL/SQL Developer hang when it is working on slow network connections every time i wrote "select * from t. " .
It is a great feature, but I would like to activate it only manually.

For the same reason I would like to disable the automatic field descrition: when I select a value from a result set and when I update a value in a column, I can see the column datatype in the bottom bar (e.g. "dummy, varchar2(1), optional".
That's useful but I would like to turn if off.

How can I do this?

thanks,
Andrea

 

[Marco Kalter]

I would like to disable the automatic completion : it can make PL/SQL Developer hang when it is working on slow network connections every time i wrote "select * from t. " .
It is a great feature, but I would like to activate it only manually.

You can go to Tools > Preferences > Code Assistant and disable the "Automatically Activated" option. Now you need to press a function key (default F6) to invoke the Code Assistant.

Note that version 9.0.6 has significantly improved performance when retrieving column lists over a slow network.

For the same reason I would like to disable the automatic field descrition: when I select a value from a result set and when I update a value in a column, I can see the column datatype in the bottom bar (e.g. "dummy, varchar2(1), optional".
That's useful but I would like to turn if off.

Go to Tools > Preferences > SQL Window and disable the "Show dictionary info in the result grid" option.

 

[amonti]

Thank you!

Andrea