And it has the added benefit of working properly on my system, while uniread does not.
Jared On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:49, Mladen Gogala wrote: > 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 > > ======================================================================== > > Daniel Hanks - Systems/Database Administrator > > About Inc., Web Services Division > > ======================================================================== > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > > -- > > Author: Daniel Hanks > > 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). > > > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Mladen Gogala > 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: Jared Still 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).
