Editor - Enhancements (Revision #9)

Block Selection

Like many of the popular IDEs developers are accustomed to, Aqua Data Studio now allows block selection of text. Clicking the Block Selection button in the Editor Toolbar lets you drag a selection rectangle around a single character or multiple columns of characters anywhere in the editor.

CTRL Highlight and Copy Functionality

While holding down the Ctrl key you can use the mouse to highlight sections of text, press the keyboard letter 'C' to copy the selection and paste it using keyboard 'V'. This is a quick way to copy and paste values and reduces the mouse click by 1 click.

This feature works only if the Ctrl key is pressed.

Text Wrapping

When using the Table Data Editor to edit fields with many characters, the text now wraps in the "Edit in Window" by clicking the Wrap Text button. Text Wrapping is found wherever you find the Query Editor, making it much easier to view and change long character strings.
 

Status Bar: Selected Character Count

To find out how many characters are currently selected in the editor, hover the cursor over the status bar.
 

Unix/Windows EOL ( end-of-line ) Indicator

You can visually check what type of end-of-line ( EOL ) sequence is being used in the current document: either LF ( Line Feed ) for unix/linux, or CR+LF ( Carriage Return + Line Feed ) for Windows.
 

Find and Replace: Resolve Escape Characters

The Find and Replace dialog now has an option to Resolve Escape Characters as part of the Replace making it easier to use regular expressions for text replacement.
 

Editor Abbreviations: Clone

To quickly reuse and alter existing Editor Abbreviations, it is now possible to select one and Clone it.

Configurable Sorting

Persistent Show Abbreviations

Row Selection enhancement

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- Rectangular block selection

Only a rectangular portion of text is selected instead of the whole line. The selection includes all of the characters captured within the rectangle defined by the first anchor character and the last character in the selection. Anything typed or pasted into the selection area is inserted at the same point in each line.

- Line Wrapping
- Enhanced Status Bar - a) Selection character count. b) indicators for UNIX/PC format
- Abbreviations
- Performance ... speed