Re: problem with define_editor command

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:33:12 +0200, Martin Soederstroem <MartinSo_at_privat.utfors.se> wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:45:52 +0530, the living god "smriti"
><smriti_singla_at_yahoo.com> walked on earth to tell us this:
>
>>Hello
>>I am facing problem in SQL basics. The command :
>>'define_editor'='youreditor' is used to define editor of our choice.i have
>>tried it with wordpad,but it didn't work.It opens a black window which
>>disappears immediately. However, it works correctly with notepad. Can I
>>define
>>MS-word, wordpad etc. for this query. If yes then please suggest me how? Any
>>help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
>>smriti
>
>I recently had the same problem. What you must do is edit you PATH
>variable. Add something like D:\Program\WordPad to it, and you should
>get it working.
>
>Although, I don't think it would be a good idea to use WordPad or Word
>as editors. They are not plain text editors. If you want something
>better than NotePad, download TextPad (not a Microsoft product, even
>if the name can give that impression) or UltraEdit.

Or better still: vim (www.vim.org), to use powerful Unix regular expressions, which, AFAIK, no windoze editor has.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 17:51:43 CDT