On 2/12/25 11:44, Rich Shepard wrote:
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.)
The point Tom was making is that psql uses readline for it's editing
positioning and that for him Emacs movement commands work in psql.
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
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