Re: win32 readline

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Where are we on this? Right now readline is disabled on Win32. psql
> works fine for me. In fact it is more native because the delete key
> deletes, and control-d doesn't exit.
>
> I am inclined to leave the code unchanged and we can revisit this later
> after we figure out why readline doesn't work on some Win32 versions.

Stupid question, but for Windows ... how many will actually use psql, vs
something like PgAdmin? I'd say revisit it later myself ... it isn't
critical to the operation of the server, only a 'luxury item' that we've
all gotten used to being there :)

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>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Just for reference, what features are we losing without readline. Tab
>>> completion, but what more?
>>
>> Command history, customizable key bindings, cut and paste, cursor keys
>> come to mind.
>>
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