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From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
To: Jagadeesh <mnjagadeesh@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to invoke edtor?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:07:40 +0200
Message-ID: <48EF1B5C.4010103@lelarge.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58515b7e-0ffc-4638-922e-dbf789f6d58e@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
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Jagadeesh a écrit :
> On Oct 10, 9:42 am, Jagadeesh <mnjagade...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>[...]
>> how can I invoke editor like vim from postgres? This helps me in
>> editing large and complex queries.
>> Thanks
> 
> I just got to know emacs can be used for it. Is there any other
> method?
> I am using FreeBSD.
> 

Change the EDITOR environment variable.

export EDITOR=vim

and psql will use vim as the query editor with \e metacommand.


-- 
Guillaume.
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