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

Cool, but it also begs the question as to why SQL*Plus doesn't have line editing capability?

Even in 9i, unless I don't know the keystrokes to do the line editing ...

v/r

Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremiah Wilton [mailto:jwilton_at_speakeasy.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 5:09 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.
>
>
> I use SQL*Plus running under emacs shell every day. It is my
> preferred way of:
>
> - Recording my sqlplus sessions so I can go back and search to see
> what I did
> - having an up-arrow comand history capability
> - Having line editing capability
> - editing SQL scripts in the same window where I am running
> - everything else
>
> I came to prefer emacs because it has capabilities far in
> excess of vi or any other unix editor. Because it is open
> source software, many people have contributed over the years,
> making the package extremely powerful. Also, I started on
> Vax/VMS edt and eve/tpu, which are more like emacs than vi.
>
> There is an emacs OracleSQL mode, but I don't use it. I just
> start emacs, META-X shell, then sqlplus...
>
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> Jeremiah Wilton
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>
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Orr, Steve wrote:
>
> > I agree with the developer vs. sysadmin generalization but this was
> > not meant to be a post about favorite editors... It's about whether
> > anyone has used or seen a SQLPlus "shell" running under emacs. Has
> > anyone "witnessed" SQLPlus running under a well-configured emacs
> > session and have impressions to share?
> >
> > The statistics I've heard are that 9 out of 10
> SysAdmin/DBA's use vi.
> > I wonder what the breakdown is for Linux admins? Since
> emacs is easy
> > to implement I could see it gaining ground on Linux but
> sometimes old
> > dinosaur type SysAdmins are slow to evolve. :-)
>
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