If you’ve been paying attention, I’m not a huge fan of ‘automatic’ features. I like to use features on-demand. One of the default preferences in the tool is to open an object as soon as you click on it in the connection tree.
But as soon as I want to drag an object to a model or to a worksheet, I lose my mojo and SQL Developer interrupts my workflow to open the object editor.
Also, you might have a fat finger or a hair-trigger mouse, so you accidentally click on things when you don’t mean to.
There’s an easy fix for this.
To the preferences!
Disable this preference
Now to open objects, you must double-click on them. This makes it much harder to accidentally open objects and interrupt your workflow.