Working with Text Editor

The text editor is the word processor of the Fusion for MySQL. When the text editor is used to edit text, it is referred to as the text editor. When it is used to edit SQL source code, which is its more common use, it is referred to as the code editor. You can open multiple code editors to view or/and edit code. A list of all documents opened for editing in instances of the code editor is available on the Windows menu.

To open the Text editor:

On the Fusion menu, click New SQL. Alternatively, click the New SQL button on the Devart - Main toolbar.

User Interface

Code pane

The area where code or text is displayed for editing. It provides SQL statement completion.

Indicator margin

A gray column on the left side of the code editor where indicators for breakpoints and bookmarks are displayed. Clicking this area sets a breakpoint on the adjacent line of code.

Selection margin

A column between the indicator margin and the editing window where you can click to select lines of code.

Horizontal and vertical scroll bars

Lets you scroll the code pane horizontally and vertically so that you can view the code that extends beyond the viewable edges of the pane.

Selecting text and code

You can quickly select a single word, line of text, or multiple paragraphs while you work with code in the editor. Keyboard shortcuts also let you select text starting from the cursor to any other point in your document.

To select text:

To select any amount of text, just drag the mouse over the text.
To select a word, either double-click a word or put your cursor next to word and press CTRL+SHIFT+ either RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW.
To select a line of text, drag the mouse over a line.
To select text from the cursor to the start or end of the line, press SHIFT+ either HOME or END.

Editing text and code

The Editor allows you to manipulate text in the same ways as most word processing applications or text editors. For example, you can:

Copy and Paste text or code inside the editor and between several Editors or between the Editor and other text editing applications.
Put the Code Editor into the overstrike mode using the INSERT key
Use the DELETE and BACKSPACE keys to remove text or code

Navigating text and code

There are various ways to move through text or code in the Code Editor using the mouse and navigation keys:

Use the arrow keys to move one character at a time, or the arrow keys in combination with the CTRL key to move one word at a time. Arrow keys move one line at a time also.
Click a location with the mouse.
Use the scroll bars or scroll wheel on the mouse to move through the code.
Use the HOME, END, PAGEUP, and PAGEDOWN keys.
Use CTRL+PAGE UP and CTRL+PAGE DOWN to move the insertion point to the top or bottom of the window, respectively.
Use CTRL+UP ARROW and CTRL+DOWN ARROW to scroll the view without moving the insertion point.

Go to Line command

Use the Go to Line command to a specific line number:

In the General, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box, select the Line Numbers option.
With a document open in the Editor, select Go to Line on the Edit menu.
Enter the line number you want to move to.

Change Text Case in the Editor

You can use menu commands or keyboard shortcuts to convert the case of selected text to all upper case or to all lower case.

To switch text to upper case:

Select the text you want to convert.
On the Edit menu, select Advanced.
To convert text to all upper case, choose Make Uppercase, or press CTRL+SHIFT+U.

To convert text to all lower case, choose Make Lowercase, or press CTRL+U.

Setting Bookmarks

As the name suggests, bookmarking accelerate your code navigation in the text editor.

There may be some piece of code where you need to move to very frequently. Generally, you scroll the page and move to that section, but Fusion for MySQL provides great features by which you can move to a particular section very quickly using some shortcut keys. This is called Bookmarking of Code.

You can place a bookmark by clicking on the bookmark icon or use CTRL + B, CTRL + T.

To create or remove a bookmark using the Text Editor toolbar:

Open a file in the Editor.
Place the insertion point on the line you want to bookmark.
Click the Toggle a bookmark on the current line button on the Text toolbar.

To move to a bookmarked line:

Scroll to the bookmarked line.
On the Text toolbar, the Move the caret to the previous bookmark and Move the caret to the next bookmark buttons are enabled.
Click these buttons to navigate to bookmarks in files within the current solution or project.

View White Space and Word Wrap

You can turn View White Space and Word Wrap modes on or off by selecting corresponding commands on the Advanced submenu of the Edit menu.

View White Space mode displays spaces and tab characters.

Word Wrap automatically displays any portion of a line that extends horizontally beyond the viewable editor area on the next line.

Text Indenting

The Editor provides text indenting functionality. You can set the indent at some line, thus when you press ENTER, this indent is set at the next line. To change line indenting, use the Increase Line Indent and Decrease Line Indent options.

To increase or decrease indenting perform the following actions:

Select the text you want to indent.
On the Edit menu, select Advanced.
Select Increase Line Indent or Decrease Line Indent to manage the indentation.

Code Outlining

SQL Editor allows you to hide parts of code. Outlining marks are shown left of the code editor window. Code blocks which belong to the same structural item can be collapsed by using the minus (-) symbol. Outlined code is not deleted, it is merely hidden from view.

You can then expand the outlined statement or user-defined region by clicking the plus sign (+) next to the symbol.

Outlining SQL Statements

The statement is outlined in the following cases:

it spans over two or more lines
it is a create statement

Nested SQL statement (for example, SELECT in CREATE VIEW) is outlined only if it starts from the new line.

Statement is not outlined if it is very short and takes only one line of the code. Stored code condition and cycle operators are not outlined; the same is about nested BEGIN … END blocks.

User-defined Outlining Regions

You can outline code block using Regions.

To create the region, type the –region command at the start line of the region. No symbols except spaces are allowed at the same line before –region command. Region may have the name, so simply specify it after space at the same line. Each region statement has to be closed by the –endregion command. Type –endregion at the beginning of the line determining the region end.

You can create named regions using the **–region ** and **--endregion ** commands.

SQL code block, grouped by the specified region can be collapsed/expanded by user. You can create nested regions to operate several SQL code blocks.