Steve - I've used Unix for many years at many different sites, mostly with large development staffs. In that time, I've only encountered one emacs user. He said that emacs had many capabilities, but they struggled several months getting it even semi-functional. I'm not sure they had it working when I left, at least he was too frustrated to gloat. Mostly I've seen people use something better than vi. If your site uses a GUI interface like X-Windows, then there will be a GUI editor. Currently people that wish to avoid vi tend to copy and paste over to Notepad. On my first Unix assignment I was doing documentation. So I decided to write documents on vi. Turns out vi has some great word processing features, like word wrap. Anyway I used that assignment to learn vi really well and that has paid off really well over the years. As I said, every site has had something better than vi, but that something has always been different and vi never changes. Why tamper with perfection? ;-)
Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L vi is what I use and it's the predominant editor for SysAdmin/DBA types but I'm curious as to how many DBA's use emacs. I just saw a demo of SQL*Plus running under emacs and it was quite functional... Sorta like and IDE for SQL without Windoze GUI dependencies. Any DBA's use emacs on a daily basis? :wq (Or ZZ) Steve Orr -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Orr, Steve INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
