Re: Favorite Linux Editor for PostgreSQL Scripts?

simran <simran.list@leonardchristian.com>

From: simran <simran.list@leonardchristian.com>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: Steve_Miller@sil.org, pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-02-06T23:53:54Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
vim is the best :-) (well, i like it anyway :-) 

Try out some of the scripts at:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/script_search.php?keywords=database&script_type=&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search

if you want extra macros/colours/extentions etc.. 

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 05:59, Steve Crawford wrote:
> You have lots of editors to choose from but probably the most widely used (at 
> least by professionals) and biggest cause of religious editor wars are emacs 
> and vi (actually vim, that is "vi improved", is the most common version of vi 
> on Linux distros).
> 
> I chose to learn vim because:
> -it is reasonably small and fast
> -there are versions for unix/linux/dos/windows/X-windows/etc. (one editor to 
> rule them all...)
> -it is the one editor that you find on basically all *nix platforms so you 
> need to know it anyway.
> 
> BTW, learning vi (or emacs, I guess) is frustrating but once you get it you 
> will not want to go back.
> 
> HTH,
> Steve
> 
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 7:24 am, Steve_Miller@sil.org wrote:
> > I'm still new to the Linux world, and do not have a bias for editor choice.
> > I have one colleague that uses Emacs, but another is worried it leads to
> > RSI and carpel tunnel syndrome, because the hands are on the keyboard all
> > the time.
> >
> > So what are the favorites for PostgreSQL scripts? I need to start learning
> > one.
> >
> > Steve Miller
> > SIL International
> >
> >
> >
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