Hear, hear! to all of these points. Are the text navigation keys correctly supported on other OS's? Is that why no one has complained until now (that I know of)? I may have filed an official feature request for the Mac navigation keys sometime in the past year; can't remember for sure.
I can live without item 6 (I've learned to cmd-shift-k to uncomment), though it would be a nice addition. Al On May 6, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Aaron Zinman <aa...@empiric.al> wrote: > 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
