diff etc/NEWS @ 109742:581430ee307c

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.

--- a/etc/NEWS	Tue Aug 10 20:01:18 2010 +0200
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Tue Aug 10 19:04:32 2010 -0400
@@ -283,6 +283,14 @@
 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 @@
 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