Re: Vim for Oracle

On 09/24/12 12:19, vicky b wrote:
> Thanks for the replies guys but in the present world where we
> leave with so much of ide and code completion and so many
> features what is that makes you guys stick to vim .. does it make
> your job simpler or features are great or your use to it.

First, I've used Vim for so long that I now find things like ":w"
appearing in my other editing tools (Query Analyzer, Word, etc), so
using Vim is habit.

Also, the power of Vim makes it very easy to perform quick
transformations on text/queries which I regularly do. For DB work,
one I frequently do is a

SELECT TOP 1 * FROM SomeTable

and run it in text-mode (rather than grid-mode). I then copy out
the headers in the results, paste them into Vim and issue a

:s/\t/,\r/g

to turn them into named columns that I can order as I see fit,
without hand-entering them all. That often makes the foundation of
a SELECT clause for me.

Matching parens/braces, syntax highlighting, batch transforms,
macros, etc. are all reasons I have trouble stepping away from Vim.

-tim




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