Without wishing to start a holy war;-) may I just point out that you can
(and I do) run emacs in vi emulation mode. I use vim as a replacement for
notepad because it starts faster.
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David Lord
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com]
> Sent: 20 February 2004 14:17
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Re: SQLPlus -- replacement tool
>
>
> I use "vim". It has "set syntax=oracle" command, or, my
> favorite, "set syntax=perl",
> and it isn't as expensive as UltraEdit32. I have yet to find
> an editor capable of
> supporting regular expressions as well as "vi". And you know
> what: it's everywhere
> where I go. There is a "vi" version for everything, with the
> possible exception of
> IBM mainframe. IBM mainframes have been appropriately named:
> the latest and the greatest
> is called "T-Rex" (not a joke, it's true). Asteroid is
> traveling fast and Jurassic is
> coming to an end.
>
>
>
>
> On 02/20/2004 09:00:07 AM, "Freeman, Donald" wrote:
> > I use UltraEdit32. Its a programming text editor with
> about 1000 built =
> > in functions. I think a single license copy is $35. It
> supports sql and =
> > pl/sql syntax highlighting, column editing (which I used
> extensively to =
> > create a million sql statements at a time), very large file
> support, =
> > built in ftp client, regular expressions, most unix like
> functions, like =
> > grep, sort, uniq, multiple clipboards, templates, macros.
> You can edit =
> > in hex, ascii, ebcdic, unix, mac. It has won several
> awards. I have =
> > been using it in combination with sqlplus for five years.
> I have both =
> > TOAD and DBArtisan but prefer Ultraedit. It's possible that
> it can be =
> > linked directly to sqlplus. I know you can run programs
> from it but =
> > haven't tried to link it. You can make it your default
> editor. It has =
> > improved my sql productivity 100%. =20
> >
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