Re: psql history and "-- lines"

On 5/6/17 19:17, Tom Lane wrote:
>> + rl_variable_bind("comment-begin", "--");
> Interesting thought, but IIUC that's a setting that would be better left
> to the user's ~/.inputrc, or might indeed override something he's put
> there. I'm also dubious how well it works across all the versions of
> readline and libedit that are out there.

Hmm, this variable appears with other customization settings, but it's
clearly something that is specific to the syntax you are typing in, so
pre-setting it makes sense. I think this is something we can play with
in PG11.

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