Command Palette Tips and Tricks

The Command Palette provides access to actions that can be performed in Coginiti. This post consists of commands that can improve your productivity when writing SQL in the Query Editor.

Command Palette

To access the Command Palette, press Command+Shift+P (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows). To open the Command Palette via UI, go to View -> Command Palette

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or select Command Palette from the right click context menu within a query editor tab

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In addition, it's possible to define a keyboard shortcut suitable for you to view the Command Palette. To do this, go to Coginiti top menu -> Keybindings..., search for the Command Palette keybindings, double click on it and set key combination.

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Command Palette Actions

Add Cursor Above

Open the Command Palette and select the Add Cursor Above action

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or press Option+Command+Up (Mac) / Alt+Control+Up (Windows)

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Add Cursor Below

Option+Command+Down (Mac) / Alt+Control+Down (Windows)

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Add Cursors to Bottom

Open the Command Palette and select the Add Cursors to Bottom action

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Add Cursors to Top

Open the Command Palette and select the Add Cursors to Top action

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Add Selection to Next Find Match

Command+D (Mac) / Control+D (Windows)

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Change All Occurrences

Command+F2 (Mac) / Control+F2 (Windows)

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Copy Expanded SQL Code

Open the Command Palette and select the Copy Expanded SQL Code action

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Copy Line Down

Option+Shift+Down (Mac) / Alt+Shift+Down (Windows)

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Copy Line Up

Option+Shift+Up (Mac) / Alt+Shift+Up (Windows)

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Delete All Left

Open the Command Palette and select the Delete All Left action (Command+Delete (Mac) / Control+Backspace (Windows))

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Delete All Right

Open the Command Palette and select the Delete All Right action (Control+K (Mac) / Control+K (Windows))

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Delete Line

Open the Command Palette and select the Delete Line action (Shift+Command+K (Mac) / Shift+Control+K (Windows))

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Editor Font Zoom In

Open the Command Palette and select the Editor Font Zoom In action

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Editor Font Zoom Out

Open the Command Palette and select the Editor Font Zoom Out action

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Editor Font Zoom Reset

Open the Command Palette and select the Editor Font Zoom Reset action

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Find and Replace

Command+F (Mac) / Control+F (Windows)

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Find and Replace with Regex

Command+F (Mac) / Control+F (Windows)

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Fold

Option+Command+[ (Mac) / Alt+Control+[ (Windows)

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Unfold

Option+Command+] (Mac) / Alt+Control+] (Windows)

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Fold All

Option+Command+0 (Mac) / Alt+Control+0 (Windows)

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Unfold All

Option+Command+J (Mac) / Alt+Control+J (Windows)

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Fold All Block Comments

Option+Command+/ (Mac) / Alt+Control+/ (Windows)

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Fold All Regions

Option+Command+8 (Mac) / Alt+Control+8 (Windows)

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Unfold All Regions

Option+Command+9 (Mac) / Alt+Control+9 (Windows)

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Fold Recursively

Option+Command+R (Mac) / Alt+Control+R (Windows)

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Format Document

Option+Shift+F (Mac) / Alt+Shift+F (Windows)

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Format Selection

Option+Command+S (Mac) / Alt+Control+S (Windows)

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Indent Line

Command+] (Mac) / Control+] (Windows)

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Outdent Line

Command+[ (Mac) / Control+[ (Windows)

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Insert Line Above

Shift+Command+Enter (Mac) / Shift+Control+Enter (Windows)

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Insert Line Below

Shift+Enter (Mac) / Shift+Enter (Windows)

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Move Line Down

Option+Down (Mac) / Alt+Down (Windows)

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Move Line Up

Option+Up (Mac) / Alt+Up (Windows)

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Multiple Selection

Hold Option (Mac) / Alt (Windows) and double-click a word

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Select Text

Hold Shift+Option (Mac) / Shift+Alt (Windows) and drag holding the left mouse button

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Toggle Block Comment

Option+Shift+A (Mac) / Alt+Shift+A (Windows)

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Toggle Line Comment

Command+/ (Mac) / Control+/ (Windows)

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Transform to Lowercase

Open the Command Palette and select the Transform to Lowercase action

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Transform to Uppercase

Open the Command Palette and select the Transform to Uppercase action

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Trigger Suggest

Open the Command Palette and select the Trigger Suggest action (Control+Space (Mac) / Control+Space (Windows))

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Trim Trailing Whitespace

Option+Command+X (Mac) / Alt+Control+X (Windows)

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Additional useful features

Find Database Objects

  • Open the Search sidebar by clicking the the search mark icon in the top right corner of the application.
  • Click the filter icon to select DB Objects option

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Find Query History

  • Open the Search sidebar by clicking the the search mark icon in the top right corner of the application.
  • Click the filter icon to select SQL history option

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Get Object Structure

Place the cursor to the object

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