Daniel, there is gqlplus which does have readline. Look at the 
http://gqlplus.sourceforge.net/
On 2003.12.16 17:09, Daniel Hanks wrote:
> I know there's a lot of folks who grumble about the spartan-ness of SQL*Plus, but 
> the only real feature I wish it had was GNU readline capability for command history 
> and editing. I've looked at some wrappers (yasql, gasql), as well as replacements 
> (henplus, which is quite nice, actually), but today I found something that seems to 
> do exactly what I really want--SQL*Plus behavior, augmented with readline support 
> (So I can still do stuff like output formatting, spooling, etc., etc.,). Yes, I 
> actually dig SQL*Plus, just wish it had readline.
> 
> So today I found a little utility called uniread:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniread/
> 
> It's a Perl program that
> 
> "adds full readline support (command editing, history, etc.) to any existing 
> interactive command-line program. Common examples are Oracle's sqlplus or jython. 
> uniread will work on any POSIX platform with Perl."
> 
> I tried it out with SQL*plus, and so far seems to work beautifully. Just thought I'd 
> share.
> 
> -- Dan
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