RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

Matthew Zito scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> <massive generalization>
>
> It seems like DBAs that use Emacs over vi (emacs vs. vi being the
> classic UNIX holy war) tend to be people who were introduced to UNIX
> by being either a developer or an end-user. If a DBA favors vi over
> emacs, it seems that they generally come from a sysadmin background.
> That's how I ended up a vi user - none of the systems I was ever
> working on could be counted to have any editor OTHER than vi. For
> better or worse, its the ubiquitous UNIX text editor.

i use vi because emacs wasn't there when i started, but then i'm old.;-)

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