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authorMichael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com>2010-08-10 19:04:32 -0400
committerMichael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com>2010-08-10 19:04:32 -0400
commit3bd2cfef67d5eaf65a50ccc54a1f70a5328cc8d1 (patch)
tree3b49fcffc39e7f83180e338274c6308f892709c9 /etc
parent490b89acab3e759426ede25c31c94268df55e925 (diff)
downloademacs-3bd2cfef67d5eaf65a50ccc54a1f70a5328cc8d1.tar.gz
Suppress continuation prompts in SQL interactive mode
* progmodes/sql.el: Version 2.5 (sql-product-alist): Add :prompt-cont-regexp property for several database products. (sql-prompt-cont-regexp): New variable. (sql-output-newline-count, sql-output-by-send): New variables. Record number of newlines in input text. (sql-send-string): Handle multiple filters and count newlines. (sql-send-magic-terminator): Count terminator newline. (sql-interactive-remove-continuation-prompt): Filters output to remove continuation prompts; one for each newline. (sql-interactive-mode): Set up new variables, prompt regexp and output filter. (sql-mode-sqlite-font-lock-keywords): Correct some keywords. (sql-make-alternate-buffer-name): Correct buffer name in edge cases.
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@@ -283,6 +283,14 @@ variables `sql-product', `sql-user', `sql-server', `sql-database' and
The custom variable `sql-port' can be specified for connection to
MySQL servers.
+*** Command continuation prompts in SQL interactive mode are suppressed.
+Multiple line commands in SQL interactive mode, generate command
+continuation prompts which needlessly confuse the output. These
+prompts are now filtered out from the output. This change impacts
+multiple line SQL statements entered with C-j between each line,
+statements yanked into the buffer and statements sent with
+`sql-send-*' functions.
+
*** Custom variables control prompting for login parameters.
Each supported product has a custom variable `sql-*-login-params'
which is a list of the parameters to be prompted for before a
@@ -302,7 +310,8 @@ names (without the directory portion). Generally these strings will
be of the form ".+\.SUF" where SUF is the desired file suffix.
When :completion is specified, the ARG corresponds to the PREDICATE
-argument to the `completing-read' function.
+argument to the `completing-read' function (a list of possible values
+or a function returning such a list).
*** Added `sql-connection-alist' to record login parameter values.
An alist for recording different username, database and server