Re: psql and readline comments

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 04:41:17AM +0000, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>
> Bruce> Agreed. I am not sure how someone would conditionally bind M-#
> Bruce> to -- _only_ in psql,
>
> By doing this in .inputrc:
>
> $if psql
> set comment-begin "--"
> $endif
>
> (observe that we set rl_readline_name in order to allow this)
>
> But that shouldn't necessarily stop us doing the setting in psql by
> default - it just needs to be verified that it does compile against the
> libedit versions people are actually using, and not break anything. (On
> the libedit on my system, rl_variable_bind ends up trying to bind the
> variable as a _key_, and I have no idea what effect that would have if
> any. Note that libedit does not seem to bind M-# by default.)

Uh, bind as a key? Does the patch have any effect then? If not, maybe
we should just do this for libreadline.

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