On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 1:17 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Did you hit Enter after \e ?
Jan,
Yes. For example, I put a previous command at the prompt to be modified. It
began with 'insert ...' so I added an initial \e to the command. psql told
me that \einsert is not a valid command after I pressed the [Enter] key.
You type "insert", realize you want an editor for this, hit enter (multi-line mode is psql), type \e, hit enter again, your editor appears with "insert" already in place from the query buffer. Upon returning you are given a new buffer with the contents of whatever you typed into the editor pasted in.
David J.
