public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: psql command line editing
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:50:49 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<CANzqJaCHXvZRC6xJbxg80DoWNmm-ohFP+u=VqpsXd6wtqXXpmw@mail.gmail.com>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

On 2/12/25 11:44, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> On my machine, Ctrl-Left/Right don't seem to do anything, but the usual
>> Emacs combinations Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, Escape-B, Escape-F and so on work in
>> psql. I don't believe I did anything special to configure that. Check 
>> your
>> local readline documentation.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I run psql from a urxvt virtual console, not emacs (which is where I write
> scripts.)

The point Tom was making is that psql uses readline for it's editing 
positioning and that for him Emacs movement commands work in psql.

> 
>> As Adrian notes, there's also \e, which is good for entering
>> or editing multi-line queries.
> 
> Often when updating table rows I'll modify one string and the row ID so 
> I'll
> learn to use \e to move around the string.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 

-- 
Adrian Klaver
[email protected]

view thread (14+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: psql command line editing
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox