I, from time to time, get stuck in ‘ed‘ on SQL*Plus because the editor not defined like this:

SQL> select * from duall;
select * from duall
 *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
22
^C
?
^Z
?

The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z, wouldn’t get you out.

The solution is simple, type ‘q‘ and press ‘Enter‘, then set editor using ‘define_editor=vi‘ and try again 🙂 :

q

1* select * from duall
SQL> define_editor=vi
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

1* select * from dual
SQL> /

D
-
X

SQL>

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Thanks

Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)