Re: Not so happy with psql's new multiline behavior

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
Cc: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not so happy with psql's new multiline behavior
Date: 2006-03-04 20:35:39
Message-ID: 20060304203539.GB13230@surnet.cl
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Michael Paesold wrote:

> When you edit a multiline function in zsh, you can easily press Control-C,
> then type "man zsh", return, and press "up" to continue editing the
> function as it was left when you pressed Control-C.

Not sure about zsh's Ctrl-C, but in bash I press Esc-# and a # is
prepended to the current line and entered into the history. This is
what I use when I want to review some manpage or something.

It also "works" in psql, but unsurprisingly it also prepends #. We
could fix it by having it prepend -- instead, or maybe enclose the
current editing buffer in /* */.

(This only works in a single line fashion in bash, but I don't see why
we couldn't make it work multiline in psql.)

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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