Re: psql and readline

On 8 Jan 2003 at 12:28, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Alexander M. Pravking" <fduch(at)antar(dot)bryansk(dot)ru> writes:
> > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:53:51AM +0100, Ian Barwick wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 07:55, Christopher Kings-Lynne
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> Is there any way of making the 'up' arrow retrieve all of the
> > >>> last multiline query, instead of just the last line? It's
> > >>> really annoying working with large multiline queries at the
> > >>> moment...
> > >>
> > >> Not that I know of, but you can use \e to edit the query in your
> > >> favourite editor.
> >
> > > Sure. But \e puts "\e" into history, instead of the query itself
> > > :(
> >
> > Hm, so it does. It seems like the edited query should go into
> > history, at least when you execute it. Peter, is this fixable?
>
> Wow, that would be a nifty trick, though they really did type \e and
> not the query the pulled in from the editor.

What about those of us who want to use \e repeatedly? Will that be
in the history buffer?
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