27. Specialized Mode for SQL Interpreters

This package provides a sql-mode and a sql-interactive-mode. The goals were two simple modes providing syntactic highlighting. The interactive mode had to provide a command-line history; the other mode had to provide "send region/buffer to SQL interpreter" functions. "simple" in this context means easy to use, easy to maintain and little or no bells and whistles.

sql-interactive-mode is used to interact with a SQL interpreter process in a SQLi buffer (usually called `*SQL*'). The SQLi buffer is created by calling a SQL interpreter-specific entry function. Do not call sql-interactive-mode by itself.

The list of currently supported interpreters and the corresponding entry function used to create the SQLi buffers is shown with M-x sql-help.

Since sql-interactive-mode is built on top of the general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer mode (comint mode), it shares a common base functionality, and a common set of bindings, with all modes derived from comint mode. This makes these modes easier to use.

sql-mode can be used to keep editing SQL statements. The SQL statements can be sent to the SQL process in the SQLi buffer.

For documentation on the functionality provided by comint mode, and the hooks available for customizing it, see the file `comint.el'.

Hint for newbies: take a look at dabbrev-expand, abbrev-mode, and imenu-add-menubar-index.

To configure this package, type:

  M-x customize-group RET SQL RET

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