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Version 1.8.0 of sql-mode. Simplify selection of SQL products to define highlighting and interactive mode. Includes detailed instructions on adding support for new products. (sql-product): New variable. Identifies SQL product for use in highlighting and interactive mode. (sql-interactive-product): New variable. SQL product for sql-interactive-mode. (sql-product-support): New variable. Specifies product-specific parameters to drive highlighting and interactive mode. (sql-imenu-generic-expression): Add more object types. (sql-sqlite-options): Correct comment. (sql-ms-program): Use "osql" rather than "isql". (sql-prompt-regexp, sql-prompt-length): Update comment. (sql-mode-menu): Add "Start SQLi session" entry. Replace Highlighting submenu with Product menu. Fix Send Region entry. (sql-mode-abbrev-table): Add abbreviations. Support of SYSTEM-FLAG on define-abbrev. Support was removed with last check-in; it now handles older Emacsen without the SYSTEM-FLAG. (sql-mode-font-lock-object-name): Add font-lock pattern for object names. (sql-mode-ansi-font-lock-keywords): Set as default value. (sql-mode-oracle-font-lock-keywords): Set as default value. Support Oracle 9i keywords. (sql-mode-postgres-font-lock-keywords): Set as default value. (sql-mode-linter-font-lock-keywords): Set as default value. (sql-mode-ms-font-lock-keywords): New variable. Support Microsoft SQLServer 2000. (sql-mode-sybase-font-lock-keywords) (sql-mode-interbase-font-lock-keywords) (sql-mode-sqlite-font-lock-keywords) (sql-mode-strong-font-lock-keywords) (sql-mode-mysql-font-lock-keywords) (sql-mode-db2-font-lock-keywords): New variables. Default to ANSI keywords. (sql-mode-font-lock-defaults): Update comment. (sql-product-feature): New function. Returns feature associated with a product from `sql-product-support' alist. (sql-product-font-lock): New function. Set font-lock support based on `sql-product'. (sql-add-product-keywords): New function. Add font-lock rules to product-specific keyword variables. (sql-set-product): New function. Set `sql-product' and apply appropriate font-lock highlighting. (sql-highlight-product): New function. Set font-lock support based on a product. Also set mode name to include product name. (sql-highlight-ansi-keywords, sql-highlight-oracle-keywords) (sql-highlight-postgres-keywords, sql-highlight-linter-keywords): Use `sql-set-product'. (sql-highlight-ms-keywords) (sql-highlight-sybase-keywords) (sql-highlight-interbase-keywords) (sql-highlight-strong-keywords) (sql-highlight-mysql-keywords) (sql-highlight-sqlite-keywords) (sql-highlight-db2-keywords): New functions. Use `sql-set-product'. (sql-get-login): Prompt in the same order as the tokens. (sql-mode): Uses `sql-product-highlight' and `sql-product-font-lock'. (sql-product-interactive): New function. Common portions of product-specific interactive mode wrappers. (sql-interactive-mode): Rewritten to use product features. (sql-oracle, sql-sybase, sql-informix, sql-sqlite, sql-mysql) (sql-solid, sql-ingres, sql-ms, sql-postgres, sql-interbase) (sql-db2, sql-linter): Use `sql-product-interactive'. (sql-connect-oracle, sql-connect-sybase, sql-connect-informix) (sql-connect-sqlite, sql-connect-mysql, sql-connect-solid) (sql-connect-ingres, sql-connect-postgres) (sql-connect-interbase, sql-connect-db2, sql-connect-linter): New functions. Format command line parameters and invoke comint on the appropriate interpreter. Code was in the corresponding `sql-xyz' function before. (sql-connect-ms): New function. Support -E argument to use operating system credentials for authentication.

	   Protect Your Freedom to Write Programs
	   Join the League for Programming Freedom
	       (Version of February 3, 1994)

Ten years ago, programmers were allowed to write programs using all
the techniques they knew, and providing whatever features they felt
were useful.  This is no longer the case.  New monopolies, known as
software patents and interface copyrights, have taken away our freedom
of expression and our ability to do a good job.

"Look and feel" lawsuits attempt to monopolize well-known command
languages; some have succeeded.  Copyrights on command languages
enforce gratuitous incompatibility, close opportunities for
competition, and stifle incremental improvements.

Software patents are even more dangerous; they make every design
decision in the development of a program carry a risk of a lawsuit,
with draconian pretrial seizure.  It is difficult and expensive to
find out whether the techniques you consider using are patented; it is
impossible to find out whether they will be patented in the future.

The League for Programming Freedom is a grass-roots organization of
professors, students, businessmen, programmers and users dedicated to
bringing back the freedom to write programs.  The League is not
opposed to the legal system that Congress expressly established for
software--copyright on individual programs.  Our aim is to reverse the
recent changes that prevent programmers from doing their work.

The League works to abolish the new monopolies by publishing articles,
talking with public officials, denouncing egregious offenders, and
filing amicus curiae briefs, most notably against Lotus in its suit
against Borland.  We testified twice at the recent Patent Office
hearings on software patents.  We welcome suggestions for other
activities, as well as help in carrying them out.


(Added 2003) The League for Programming Freedom is inactive nowadays,
though its web site www.programming-freedom.org is still maintained.
It would be very useful to find a person who could take the initiative
to get the LPF operating again.  It will be a substantial job,
requiring persistence and working with a lawyer.  If you want to do
it, please write to [e-mail].