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

Howdy Jeremiah,

Based on your "testimonial" I have given this a try and am beginning to see the coolness of it all.

Regarding...
> There is an emacs OracleSQL mode, but I don't use it. I just start
emacs,
> META-X shell, then sqlplus...

I've tried both. Any particular reason for using or not using OracleSQL mode?

I've only one complaint, (so far :), the output of SQL statement result sets is slower than just straight SQLPlus. Any way to speed this up? Any way to interrupt the output?

AtDhVaAnNkCsE,
Steve Orr
Bozeman, Montana

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Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 3:09 AM
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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
http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

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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