Re: Building a database interface in Emacs

["aartist" <aartist@gmail.com>]

You might want to look at Widget and Skeleton.
M-x Customize-browse is one classic example, you might want to follow.


C-h i m widget
Mathias Dahl wrote:
> I have been looking into using Emacs for doing queries etc against an
> Oracle database, for certain work purposes. I use the nice functions
> in sql.el (M-x sql-oracle in my case) for doing ad-hoc queries and
> such, but I want to build some small forms or similar to process
> certain data, with the intent of replacing some of the boring and
> heavy GUI apps we have.
>
> At first I just want to see if it is possible to do, by making up some
> simple form to browse records or similar.
>
> What would be the best approach for doing this? First I tried adding
> something on top of sql.el and comint.el but it seemed overkill as I
> am not interested in a command line interface. My current plan is to
> use `start-process' to start sqlplus in a process, and to send input
> and parse the output I get back from that process.
>
> Is there any smarter way of doing it?
> 
> I want to do this on w32, btw.
> 
> /Mathias