Re: External psql editor - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Reid Thompson
Subject Re: External psql editor
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Msg-id 972d9c5f4293b858a5b505e6af8debd1ca16cf3c.camel@nc.rr.com
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In response to Re: External psql editor  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
Responses Re: External psql editor  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
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On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 11:10 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > Not that I know of. \e starts the external editor and you have to
> > save and
> > exit that editor to get back to psql in order to execute it. IMHO
> > the
> > whole construct has very limited usability.
>
> Jan,
>
> I tried, unsuccessily, to use \e. Entering it while a command is
> displayed
> does nothing. So I'm doing something wrong.
>
> I'll continue using character-by-character movement.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Rich
>
>


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