Feature idea: NRQL Carriage Returns for Formatting

I think this is a feature request, unless there is a way to do this I haven’t found.

NRQL can get quite complex, and carriage returns can be very helpful for formatting. The various text inputs for NRQL, including alert conditions and the data explorer, do not support a simple way to add carriage returns (that I have found). Many editors elsewhere use CMD-ENTER, or some other shortcut.

The workaround I found is to use copy/paste, either for the fully formatted NRQL, or just the carriage returns. However, this can get annoying, and other developers that edit my queries often don’t know the workaround, and they are sometimes confused about how to proceed.

Thank you.

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As a workaround I use a text editor (like notepad) when I create large queries

Splunk and Slack both use Shift-Enter for this.

I played with this a little and saw really strange behavior around copy-pasted newlines; pasting a whole formatted block and then moving around it with the arrow keys was fine, but if I pasted a newline in to break up a query or add blank links to a formatted one, arrows didn’t navigate through the break properly.

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