Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>> My web searches suggest that using the psql command line I'm limited to
>> moving the cursor one character at a time. Is there a way to use a small
>> editor, e.g., joe on linux, to move by words or to the begining and end of
>> the line?
> The PGDG prebuilt packages are built with libreadline. Thus, if that's how
> you installed psql, Home, End, Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right and Ctrl-w should work.
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.
As Adrian notes, there's also \e, which is good for entering
or editing multi-line queries.
regards, tom lane
