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Preferences Dialog - SQL Editing Help

On this page, you can set options for editing text in the SQL editor(s).

SQL Editor

vs_dialog_prefs_text_editing | Preferences Dialog - SQL Editing

  • Auto add closing brace – If ON, then the application will automatically add the “closing” brace when the user will input the “opening” brace symbol.
  • Auto add closing quote – If ON, then the application will automatically add the “closing” quote when the user will input the “opening” quote symbol.
  • Auto indents – If ON, then the application will automatically make indents in the text.
  • Highlight current row – If ON, then the application will highlight the active row in the editor.
  • Show indentation guides – If ON, draw an indentation line in your code.
  • Show white space – If ON, white space chars will be shown as dots.
  • Uppercase keywords – If ON, then all keywords will be automatically changed to upper-case.

Static Analyzer

vs_prefs_static_analyzer | Preferences Dialog - Static Analyzer

  • Static Analyzer - enables Static Analyzer. Many features of SQL Editor depend on information collected by this Analyzer. Enabled on default.
  • Ident Resolved - enables Ident Resolver, a feature of SQL Editor to find and show wrong idents in the SQL command.
  • Open static analyzer console on error
  • Static analyzer document size limit

Autocompletion

  • Show autocompletion list on text enter – If ON, the application will offering the list of keywords for auto-completion on typing.
    • Show list delay (ms) – The delay, before showing the autocompletion list.
  • Add a space after the autocompletion – If ON, the application will add the space after the substituted word.
  • Autocompletion Style – new in v10.5.
    • StartWith - this style was for years up to v10.5. Typed chars considered as the prefix of a string.
    • RegEx - Typed chars used for RegEx comparision against strings.

Color Schema

Here you can choose one of the following color schemas for SQL text: