21 April 2009

Copy and Paste: Clipboard Items

By accident I discovered something in SQL Developer. Another one of those things I need to remember for future reference. Hope you can use this feature too.

You know you can use CTRL + C for copying and CTRL + V for pasting. Nothing new there, but what is really neat is that you can use SHIFT + CTRL + V to see the contents of all your clipboard items.

Because I needed to do a lot of copying today, this came in really handy.

3 comments:

  1. maybe that can explain why some of the paste I've done started pasting things I did not copy, or at least do not remember to copy.
    I find the latest version to be extremely weird in that. I'm pasting a table name and end up with "group by" few rows below...

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  2. Niva, thank you for your comment. The "group by" is automatically added (since SQL Developer 2.1) whenever you use an aggregate in the query. There is a setting that influences this behaviour.
    Tools --> Preferences --> Code Editor --> Completion Insight. There is a checkbox labeled "Autogenerate GROUP BY clause". When you uncheck this the automatic Group By won't happen anymore.

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  3. the only problem with this technique, is the fact of cause a little problem call it "term anteposicition", this happen when a term used to define something copy the pattern of something totally different.

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