Re: SQL*Plus bug
From: Dan Townsend <townsend_at_ebmud.com>
Date: 1997/05/08
Message-ID: <3371DB3B.2D1E_at_ebmud.com>#1/1
| mailto:townsend_at_ebmud.com
> Does anyone else have the copy bug, where you try to copy a line that
> has a capital "C" in it, then when you paste it, the lines breaks at
> that point?
>
> Then wanted to copy it below, you would highlight it, and press CTRL+C,
> then CTRL+V to paste it. If I do this I get the following:
> SQL>SELE
> unknown command "SELE" - rest of line ignored.
> SQL>T * FROM EMP;
>
> It doesn't do this with a lower case "c" only upper. Is there a solution
> for this?
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST
Date: 1997/05/08
Message-ID: <3371DB3B.2D1E_at_ebmud.com>#1/1
[Quoted] I encountered this and found that if I use Ctrl-Ins to copy it and Shift-Ins to paste it, the text copies correctly. Apparently, Oracle uses its own copy/paste routines, not Windows'. Hence the unexpected 'feature'.
+----------------------------------------------------- | Dan Townsend, Supervising Database Architect| EBMUD Enterprise Object Designer
| mailto:townsend_at_ebmud.com
+-----------------------------------------------------Larry Jones wrote:
> Does anyone else have the copy bug, where you try to copy a line that
> has a capital "C" in it, then when you paste it, the lines breaks at
> that point?
>
> Then wanted to copy it below, you would highlight it, and press CTRL+C,
> then CTRL+V to paste it. If I do this I get the following:
> SQL>SELE
> unknown command "SELE" - rest of line ignored.
> SQL>T * FROM EMP;
>
> It doesn't do this with a lower case "c" only upper. Is there a solution
> for this?
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST