I agree with the developer vs. sysadmin generalization but this was not meant to be a post about favorite editors... It's about whether anyone has used or seen a SQLPlus "shell" running under emacs. Has anyone "witnessed" SQLPlus running under a well-configured emacs session and have impressions to share?
The statistics I've heard are that 9 out of 10 SysAdmin/DBA's use vi. I wonder what the breakdown is for Linux admins? Since emacs is easy to implement I could see it gaining ground on Linux but sometimes old dinosaur type SysAdmins are slow to evolve. :-) Steve Orr-asaurus, with apologies to Don G. -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <massive generalization> It seems like DBAs that use Emacs over vi (emacs vs. vi being the classic UNIX holy war) tend to be people who were introduced to UNIX by being either a developer or an end-user. If a DBA favors vi over emacs, it seems that they generally come from a sysadmin background. That's how I ended up a vi user - none of the systems I was ever working on could be counted to have any editor OTHER than vi. For better or worse, its the ubiquitous UNIX text editor. </massive generalization> Of course, there are those who use notepad + ftp........ Matt -- Matthew Zito GridApp Systems Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 646-220-3551 Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359 http://www.gridapp.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Orr, Steve > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:10 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs. > > > 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).