From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH |
Date: | 2011-05-25 17:49:10 |
Message-ID: | 1306345651-sup-7800@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar may 24 17:11:17 -0400 2011:
> Right. It would also increase the cognitive load on the user to have
> to remember the command-line go-to-line-number switch for his editor.
> So I don't particularly want to redesign this feature. However, I can
> see the possible value of letting EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH be set from
> the same place that you set EDITOR, which would suggest that we allow
> the value to come from an environment variable. I'm not sure whether
> there is merit in allowing both that source and ~/.psqlrc, though
> possibly for Windows users it might be easier if ~/.psqlrc worked.
If we're going to increase the number of options in .psqlrc that do not
work with older psql versions, can I please have .psqlrc-MAJORVERSION or
some such? Having 8.3's psql complain all the time because it doesn't
understand "linestyle" is annoying.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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