Sorry if this has been gone over. A place to see all enhancement requests would be great.
What I miss most in the pl/sql dev editor are the following features:
- a setting so that when I hit home, the cursor goes to the first character in a line and not to the beginning of the line
- column functionality
- select a column of text
- insert a text string into the selected column area
- press one key and it goes into the selected column area
- cut and paste
- bookmarks working as follows
- press a key (say, shift-F2) to set a general bookmark
- press same key (say, shift-F2) to unset the general bookmark when the cursor is on the bookmark.
- press a key (say F2) to go from general bookmark to general bookmark one after the other. This would go back to the top after the bottom most bookmark was reached. This way, using them as a place holder is fast and simple. I usually don't want the more sophisticated functionality in pl/sql dev.
- Find. I would like to highlight some text and then press my search key (F3 for me).
- I would like it to continue to the top after finding the last occurrance at the bottom.
- if the string is not found, I would like the option to have it say so.
- replace. I do a find to get to the text I want to replace. I put in the new string and say change all. It doesn't do the one I am on.
- same as find. if I highlight text and press my replace key, then I want the highlighted text to be what will be replaced so that I need only specify what the new text will be. The cursor should however be in the current text area.
- when I replace globally, I want it to do everything and not just up OR down, but both (no matter where I am positioned in the file).
In macros, I would like to be able to edit the macro. If I can do that, I must have missed it. If I can't, I'm sure this isn't the first request to do so.
Thanks for the great product.
Aberfoyle
What I miss most in the pl/sql dev editor are the following features:
- a setting so that when I hit home, the cursor goes to the first character in a line and not to the beginning of the line
- column functionality
- select a column of text
- insert a text string into the selected column area
- press one key and it goes into the selected column area
- cut and paste
- bookmarks working as follows
- press a key (say, shift-F2) to set a general bookmark
- press same key (say, shift-F2) to unset the general bookmark when the cursor is on the bookmark.
- press a key (say F2) to go from general bookmark to general bookmark one after the other. This would go back to the top after the bottom most bookmark was reached. This way, using them as a place holder is fast and simple. I usually don't want the more sophisticated functionality in pl/sql dev.
- Find. I would like to highlight some text and then press my search key (F3 for me).
- I would like it to continue to the top after finding the last occurrance at the bottom.
- if the string is not found, I would like the option to have it say so.
- replace. I do a find to get to the text I want to replace. I put in the new string and say change all. It doesn't do the one I am on.
- same as find. if I highlight text and press my replace key, then I want the highlighted text to be what will be replaced so that I need only specify what the new text will be. The cursor should however be in the current text area.
- when I replace globally, I want it to do everything and not just up OR down, but both (no matter where I am positioned in the file).
In macros, I would like to be able to edit the macro. If I can do that, I must have missed it. If I can't, I'm sure this isn't the first request to do so.
Thanks for the great product.
Aberfoyle
