Thanks Dave and Ray. I'll try to retrain my fingers to type Ctrl+Spc, and to treat Google search results with more skepticism.
-arthur. -- Arthur Prokosch :: proko...@umich.edu Master of Urban Planning and M.S. Natural Resources and Environment, '15 Transportation Planning, Behavior, and Policy University of Michigan On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <r...@iol.ie> wrote: > > On 17/06/2014 21:16, Arthur Prokosch wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Coming from a unix background, I'd really like to be able to use the > >> <tab> key within the Query Tool's editor box to bring up > >> autocompletions. It's documented even though the feature seems to be > >> long-dead. Can this be fixed? > >> > >> According to the documentation I find at > >> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/query.html > >> that should be possible: "You can optionally enable the Tab key to > >> activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the > >> options dialog." But there's nothing apropos in the options dialog, nor > >> any relevant registry keys or values matching "tab." > > > > Hi there, > > > > That's a really old set of documentation - the current version is 1.18, > > and here's the corresponding page in the up-to-date docs - > > > > http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.18/query.html > > > > - where you'll see that ctrl-space is now used for autocompletion. :-) > > Yeah, but it also says "You can optionally enable the Tab key to > activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the > options dialog.". I've removed that now for 1.20. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
