I should also add redo convention on the mac is shift-cmd-Z instead of pgadmin's cmd-Y.
Best, Aaron -- aaron zinman, phd :: http://empiric.al :: http://azinman.com On May 6, 2014, at 6:45 PM, Aaron Zinman <aa...@empiric.al> wrote: > 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 > > -- > aaron zinman, phd :: http://empiric.al :: http://azinman.com >
