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Hi,
I've added it to our list.I'm connecting to a database thru a VPN connection, needless to say that the snapshot takes a while, and all this time the "SQL Prompt" notification is in the way, preventing me from accessing some stuff in the bottom-right corner of my screen... jeez do I loathe notifications sometimes! It this case a simple "hide" button would do.
You can enable space completion on the Candidates tab in the Options. (There is a 'SQL Prompt' menu item now in your editor.)I haven't had that much time to get used to it or fiddle with the options, but the intellisense "closer to VS" is very frustrating sometimes! Like if i select a table or whatever and just hit space, it doesn't type it (Intellisense does), I have to manually type "enter".
What exactly would you expect to happen when you press Alt + Right?I also baaaadly miss the alt+right combo from VS.
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Tilman -
Thanks for the quick reply, and the "space" tip! I also check the "." option, it helps A LOT, now I don't type a whole line of code and watch back and say "jeez where's all I typed??"
So I took some time to have a look at the options...
I saw there's a default 500ms delay while showing the candidate list, maybe that explains in part this un-VS feeling I have. Like when I type "TableName.", on the "." I expect to see the column list instantaneously.
I don't know if the delay is necessary due to some processing speed limitations, I guess I could try to set it to zero? In VS it just seems to be here when I want it, period.
I know sometimes VS's intellisense is acting up and the candidate list takes a while (or forgets) to show, or I switch windows in the middle of a word, come back and the candidate list is gone: in those cases hitting alt+right brings it up for sure. Also it brings it up from nowhere, even if I'm not typing anything.
I suppose all this is the equivalent of the Ctrl+spacebar I saw in the options, but can't really tell until I've used it for a while.
But more important, alt+right in VS auto-completes the current word if it's the only candidate.
For example now I type "ssf", wait 500ms, and hit space. In VS it'd type "ssf" then alt+right, and bam.
Or I'd type "TableN" then alt+right and I'd get "TableName". I know I could just tpye "TableN" and hit space when the candidate list is up and get the same, but hey my fingers seem to be a lot faster than my brain.
You said keystrokes would be "much closer to Visual Studio" and I know I can except a lot from a RedGate software (*butt-kissing noises*) so now you'll have to deliver
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Anyway I hope this all helped, sorry if I'm not super clear on all this but the whole point of Intellisense is to be intuitive so I don't really know exactly how I use VS, I just know than when I launched SQL Prompt I kept typing stuff, expecting something that didn't always happen.
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Title says all. I'm connecting to a database thru a VPN connection, needless to say that the snapshot takes a while, and all this time the "SQL Prompt" notification is in the way, preventing me from accessing some stuff in the bottom-right corner of my screen... jeez do I loathe notifications sometimes! It this case a simple "hide" button would do.
Other than that I just installed SQL Prompt 3 beta today, it does work with my french OS (v2 didn't), so it looks good.
I haven't had that much time to get used to it or fiddle with the options, but the intellisense "closer to VS" is very frustrating sometimes! Like if i select a table or whatever and just hit space, it doesn't type it (Intellisense does), I have to manually type "enter". I also baaaadly miss the alt+right combo from VS.
But I'm sure we'll see plenty improvement with the release, and then more
Keep up the good work Red Gate!