2.1 EA1 - Capitalizing SQL text in worksheet

Question

Whenever I enter some SQL commands in the Worksheet window and press ENTER after the semicolon, it re-formats the text and Capitalizes all keywords. So the following:
select * from dual;
becomes
Select * From Dual;
Which is quite annoying, because SQL Developer shouldn't mess with my code unless I ask it to. I know there is Right-Click -> Format (CTRL-F7), which does a great job fixing messy SQL and I love this feature... but it never used to change the actual text. In v2.1 EA it does, and it uses a different capitalization scheme to that of the worksheet, which results in:
SELECT * FROM dual;
Personally I'd prefer it to behave thus:
1. Don't mess with ANY text in the SQL worksheet, unless specifically asked to do so
2. When formatting SQL with "Format", don't change the case of any text
3. Have another option (or an extension to "Format") that will change the case of text to fit a configurable standard
4. If a block of text is selected when "Format" is invoked, then only format this block, instead of the entire Worksheet window
Edited by: gclough on Oct 6, 2009 11:09 AM

Answer 1

Sorry if I can't reproduce the exact terms, my windows in in Brazilian Portuguese, but I will try my best.
Latin languages such as portuguese have lots of letters with accents and most accented letters are produced by key combinations. The most common accent in portuguese is the acute accent that can happen with any vowel. To produce an accented vowel, I have to press the single quote key (the one besides enter on a standard American keyboard). By this point, Windows does nothing. Then, if I press <space> I get the single quote and if I press a vowel I get that vowel with an acute accent and if I press a key that doesn't accept acute accent I get a single quote and the character I pressed.
This only happens with keyboard layouts that support such languages with accented letters. I myself use a standard American keyboard on my main workstation and an ABNT approved Brazilian Portuguese keyboard on most others. To set the keyboard layout you go to Control Panel, Region and Language options, Languages tab and click Detail button. If you have a standard American keyboard you should choose United States (International) as the keyboard layout. Now, if you open any text editor (notepad or even the Worksheet editor within SQL Developer) you will notice the behavior I tried to describe above. You must start the software after applying keyboard layout change.
Problem is that Windows will only send the single quote to the active software after it realizes I really want a quote and not an accented vowel. If you open the Shortcut Keys on the Preferences dialog on SQL Developer you will notice that with a keyboard that is set to produce accents is impossible to reproduce <ctrl><quote> and for that reason it doesn't work on the Worksheet editor.
As I said is no biggie change it to something else, but it would be really nice if I didn't had to.
best regards,
Tiago