On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Tom Lane wrote:
On my machine, Ctrl-Left/Right don't seem to do anything, but the usual Emacs combinations Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, Escape-B, Escape-F and so on work in psql. I don't believe I did anything special to configure that. Check your local readline documentation.
Tom, I run psql from a urxvt virtual console, not emacs (which is where I write scripts.)
As Adrian notes, there's also \e, which is good for entering or editing multi-line queries.
Often when updating table rows I'll modify one string and the row ID so I'll learn to use \e to move around the string. Many thanks, Rich
