On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 1:17 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> 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.
