Re: "vi" or "pico" ? for new user

From: Phil Britton <PhilBritton_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:00:59 GMT
Message-ID: <36bed17f.3735701@pub.news.uk.psi.net>

On 7 Feb 1999 03:33:34 GMT, profwdesk1_at_aol.com (ProfWdesk1) wrote:

>I'm using pico now while I'm trying to learn Oracle from the beginning. Is it
>worth the learning curve to learn "vi" now or can I use what seems to be the
>simple "pico" and learn "vi" later if need?
>

You could also try out emacs. It has modes for editing sql scripts and pl/sql programs and also can interface directly with sqlplus giving it commend line editing, command history etc. definitely and imporvement on the normal sqlplus interface.

cheers

Phil Received on Mon Feb 08 1999 - 06:00:59 CST