Re: psql and readline

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Alexander M. Pravking" <fduch@antar.bryansk.ru> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:53:51AM +0100, Ian Barwick wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 07:55, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >>> Is there any way of making the 'up' arrow retrieve all of the last
> >>> multiline query, instead of just the last line?  It's really annoying
> >>> working with large multiline queries at the moment...
> >> 
> >> Not that I know of, but you can use \e to edit the query in your 
> >> favourite editor.
> 
> > Sure. But \e puts "\e" into history, instead of the query itself :(
> 
> Hm, so it does.  It seems like the edited query should go into history,
> at least when you execute it.  Peter, is this fixable?

Wow, that would be a nifty trick, though they really did type \e and not
the query the pulled in from the editor.

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