Re: A better SQL*Plus -- what features should it have?

In article <1036743771.379454_at_news.thyssen.com>, Guido.Konsolke_at_triaton.com says...
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> "Niall Litchfield" wrote...
> >
> > Indeed, but if I 'forget' that extra character then I have false
> assurance.
> > If I mistype connect on the other hand I just curse and have another go. I
> > don't think that its that i'm over cautious, just that if there is any
> > possibility that the screen can say <development database> when I'm on the
> > <production database> then *at the worst possible moment* this has a
> > probability approaching 1 of happening :(.
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> Ok, I give in 8-)
> But the feature that I really need would be an automatic
> misspelling correction. I can't count nor estimate how often
> I wrote FORM instead of FROM.
>
> Greetings again,
> Guido
>

Something like IntelliSense. If MS can do it for Visual Studio.NET (for *any* kind of file), Oracle can surely do it for SQL*Plus.

• Tom