Re: psql possible TODO

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >> But lastly, do we need this at all? It seems like a relatively awkward,
> >> highly error-prone way to do what you can do today with control-P and
> >> re-execute.
>
> > If you mean control-P as in "paste" then I would say... get your hands
> > off the mouse. The mouse is counter productive and it is faster to do
> > this:
>
> No, I mean control-P as in "recall the previous entry". What you showed
> takes *more* work to recall a recent entry than hitting control-P a few
> times. It has vastly greater chance of error, too, ie, executing the
> wrong command for lack of any feedback about what it is you're really
> about to execute. I will grant that control-P isn't a good way to
> recall an entry from dozens or hundreds of commands ago, but that's what
> control-R is for; and I don't see that a command number would help any
> for that anyway.
>
> > Just like bash.
>
> What we have is just like bash --- at least the parts of it that I use.

This reminds me of the old csh function where you could recall things by
numbers and do search/replace on them. The capability was so hard to
use I could imagine anyone _normal_ using it.

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