On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 11:10 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Jan Wieck wrote: > > > Not that I know of. \e starts the external editor and you have to > > save and > > exit that editor to get back to psql in order to execute it. IMHO > > the > > whole construct has very limited usability. > > Jan, > > I tried, unsuccessily, to use \e. Entering it while a command is > displayed > does nothing. So I'm doing something wrong. > > I'll continue using character-by-character movement. > > Thanks again, > > Rich > > https://linuxgazette.net/issue14/bashtip.html may of of use.