Re: Getting PSQL in Windows to support TAB/Autocomplete via modified readline...

From: Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Getting PSQL in Windows to support TAB/Autocomplete via modified readline...
Date: 2022-11-21 17:12:20
Message-ID: CACLU5mQ9zffMiUbDGG4RG3AYN373Bb5Y6eOwrpoME_vYNXF=yA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:58 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> It'd certainly be nice if we could use Readline on Windows. I do not
> think we want to buy into maintaining our own fork of Readline, if that's
> what you're trying to suggest. If it "just works" now, that'd be great.
>

Okay, we should know shortly if it works and to what extent. We will
take the approach that if we don't need to maintain a fork we are fine.
[The latter could make it work only for English, not sure]

FYI,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:01 AM Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> FWIW, I've been using https://github.com/arangodb/linenoise-ng for Linux
and Windows,

I've look at linenoise and without tab/autocomplete it's not worth the
effort, IMO.
But I appreciate the pointer...

regards

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