Re: psql case preserving completion

2012/1/11 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>:
> In psql, the tab completion always converts key words to upper case.  In
> practice, I and I think most users type in lower case.  So then you end
> up with commands looking like this:
>
> => alter TABLE foo add CONSTRAINT bar check (a > 0);
>
> To address this, I have implemented a slightly different completion mode
> that looks at the word being completed and converts the completed word
> to the case of the original word.  (Well, it looks at the first letter.)
>
> In fact, since almost all completions in psql are of this nature, I made
> this the default mode for COMPLETE_WITH_CONST and COMPLETE_WITH_LIST and
> added a new macro COMPLETE_WITH_LIST_CS that uses the old case-sensitive
> behavior. The latter is used mainly for completing backslash commands.
>
> After playing with this a little, I find the behavior more pleasing.
> Less yelling. ;-)
>
> Patch attached.

+1

Pavel

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