Re: Not so happy with psql's new multiline behavior

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:07:15PM -0500, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> For me, I prefer the interactive behaviour of ZSH. Multiline
> statements remain as multiline statements, as they were typed.
> One can navigate up and down through the multiline statement
> to make alterations. The real beauty of this approach comes up
> when doing something such as defining a function. Would you
> LOVE the ability to edit the function, in the original form,
> as originally typed, allowing you to insert text, and even
> newlines into the middle? Effectively you have have a full
> text editor, for the last complete series of lines.
<snip>
> Oh no. We typed the wrong command in. It isn't 'a' we want. We want 'ls'.
>
> Hit up-arrow twice, and we get (_ = cursor)
>
> $ f()
> {
> a
> }_

ISTM this is much more useful than the way psql used to work. Don't know
about what's happening in -tip...
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