Justin Clift wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote:
> <snip>
> > As this is changing existing behaviour, I think adding an optional
> > switch to revert to the old behaviour is a good idea.
>
> Two thoughts:
>
> a) Is it possible to change the behavior of the history as we're
> discussing? Haven't heard Peter's response to this.
>
> b) Do we really want to go to the effort of adding a switch to revert to
> previous behaviour for something like this? It's almost definitely a
> win to have \e commands appear in the history, and seems a bit to
> trivial for adding switches for.
Let's suppose I am writing a query, and then I do \e to edit the query,
and I exit the editor and return to psql. Suppose I decide I want to
reedit, so I up arrow. I would expect to get \e, not the query I just
edited, no?
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