we covered this very subject within the last two months. these two products
may well give you more, but using as sqlplus picks up the functionality of
the environment in which it is run using the command line version on windows
and running within emacs on *nix provide the most commonly requested
functionality.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Spider" <google_at_gravesweeper.com> wrote in message
news:69581aae.0302162306.2ccb2d93_at_posting.google.com...
> A group search didn't turn anything up about this, so I wanted to post
> a public service announcement. I have found two "wrappers" for sqlplus
> that offer improvements like tab completion and command history for
> sqlplus:
>
> http://gqlplus.sourceforge.net/
>
> gqlplus is a drop-in replacement for sqlplus, an Oracle SQL client,
> for UNIX platforms. The difference between gqlplus and sqlplus is
> command-line editing and history, plus tablename completion.
>
>
> http://www.gusnet.cx/proj/miscunix/code/sqlplusplus.c
>
> sqlplusplus.c - Wrapper for Oracle's lame SQL*Plus program that gives
> you readline command editing (just like bash) and history.
>
>
> I have used both of these programs are painless to copmile and I have
> used each extensively. sqlplusplus is older and has some terminal
> emulation issues for me, but I just found gqlplus which I am very fond
> of and works beautifully.
Received on Tue Feb 18 2003 - 02:49:18 CST
