Hi PgAdmin team,
I’ve been a faithful user of your product on os x for many years now. I’ve
tried many other clients but in the end they all lack some aspect of my
workflow that I get out of pgadmin. There have been a few things that have long
bothered me that I’d like to suggest to improve significantly the usability.
1. Native text editing.On a mac, the following aren’t supported
a) jumping words via option+left/right
b) jumping to EOL or BOL with cmd-left/right
c) jumping to BOD / EOD with cmd-up/down
d) home/end are mapped to EOL/BOL instead of EOD/BOD (although I quite
dislike that about mac apps, so good for me)
2. In many text fields (editing server connection properties, editing the
definition of a view), backspace is mapped to some kind of DROP/DELETE or
something other than editing text which is dangerous and highly confusing.
Really really bad when you’re editing the name of a table and then its asking
you if you want to drop it.
3. Resizing windows doesn’t keep toolbars/subwindows with minimum size. You can
end up in a case where the toolbar at the top that was visible is now 100%
squished or otherwise mutated when you shrink the window size. It should reflow
better.
These are otherwise violations of my expected behavior of a mac app. Beyond
that, I have a few other requests
4. Columns do not expand size to fit. I often am querying json, where I end up
with one column that allows for 10 characters of visibility, and then about
700px of nothing remaining in the window.
5. For the json data type, a better data viewing experience would be great. One
suggestion would be to leave it rendered as text like it is, but when you
double click on a cell a window pops up that decomposes it into a pretty
printed tree.
6. Be able to cmd-/ a highlighted line to (un)comment it with a --
7. When I open a SQL console while an object/function/etc is selected, the text
inside is how to create it. That’s (occasionally) helpful. However, if I close
it without modifying it, I shouldn’t be asked if I’m sure I don’t want to save
it first when I haven’t edited anything inside yet.
I hope this is well received. Thank you!
Aaron
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aaron zinman, phd :: http://empiric.al :: http://azinman.com
