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3.4 Using editors

Editors can be in two modes. The first is read and write in which case the following key bindings are defined.

Left ArrowMove the cursor one character to the left
Right ArrowMove the cursor one character to the right
Up ArrowMove the cursor one line upwards
Down ArrowMove the cursor one line downwards
Page UpMove the cursor one page upwards
Page DownMove the cursor one page downwards
BSDelete the character to the left of the cursor
HOMEMove the cursor to the beginning of the line
EndMove the cursor to the end of the line
DeleteDelete the character to the right of the cursor
SHIFT - Left ArrowMark text one character to the left
SHIFT - Right ArrowMark text one character to the right
CTRL-ASelect the entire buffer.
CTRL-BMove the cursor one character leftwards
CTRL-CCopy the marked text to the clipboard
CTRL-DDelete the character to the right of the cursor
CTRL-EMove the cursor to the end of the line
CTRL-FPop up the search & replace dialog
CTRL-HDelete the character to the left of the cursor
CTRL-KDelete to end of line
CTRL-NMove the cursor one line downwards
CTRL-PMove the cursor one line upwards
CTRL-VPaste the clipboard text into line edit
CTRL-XCut the marked text, copy to clipboard
CTRL-ZUndo the last operation
CTRL-YRedo the last operation
CTRL - LeftArrow Move the cursor one word to the left
CTRL - RightArrow Move the cursor one word to the right
CTRL - Up ArrowMove the cursor one word upwards
CTRL - Down ArrowMove the cursor one word downwards
CTRL - Home ArrowMove the cursor to the beginning of the text
CTRL - End ArrowMove the cursor to the end of the text
CTRL-SSave the editor with the current filename, if no filename is defined a dialog is displayed for the user to select the filename to use.
CTRL-ORead a file into the editor. A dialog will pop up to select the name to open.

The second mode is read only in which only the current key binding are available.

Left ArrowScrolls the table to the left
Right ArrowScrolls the table to the right
Up Arrow Scrollsthe table one line downwards
Down ArrowScrolls the table one line upwards
Page UpScrolls the table one page downwards
Page DownScrolls the table one page upwards
Control-CCopy the marked text to the clipboard
Control-SSave the editor with the current filename, if no filename is defined a dialog is displayed for the user to select the filename to use.

Editors support drag and drop which means you can drag a selection to another editor and drop any other text source onto an editable editor to insert the dragged text at the dropped location.

Also as a shortcut pressing the right mouse button will display a context menu containing the entries from the edit menu which pertain to the editors.

SQL editors

Editors for SQL have another feature which is code completion. If you place the cursor after a ’.’ character TOra will this the available columns for the table referenced by the name before the ’.’ character. This will only work for defined views and tables. You can also look up tablenames using the CTRL+T key which will list all tables starting with the same word as you currently have the cursor in. When the completion list is open you can navigate it using Up, Down keys and selecting an entry using Return. You can also remove the list by pressing the Escape key. The completion values are saved in the object cache and can not be used until it is read. If you find this annoying you can disable this in the preferences.


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