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

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. :-)

Steve Orr-asaurus, with apologies to Don G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Zito [mailto:mzito_at_gridapp.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

<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.

</massive generalization>

Of course, there are those who use notepad + ftp........

Matt

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On

> Behalf Of Orr, Steve

> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:10 PM

> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

> Subject: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

> 

> 

> vi is what I use and it's the predominant editor for

> SysAdmin/DBA types but I'm curious as to how many DBA's use 

> emacs. I just saw a demo of SQL*Plus running under emacs and 

> it was quite functional... Sorta like and IDE for SQL without 

> Windoze GUI dependencies. Any DBA's use emacs on a daily basis?