| From: | Eric B(dot)Ridge <ebr(at)tcdi(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Command editing with psql and OS X |
| Date: | 2002-12-02 02:51:04 |
| Message-ID: | E5EF3DA0-05A0-11D7-80E1-0003930C70D8@tcdi.com |
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On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 09:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Eric B.Ridge" <ebr(at)tcdi(dot)com> writes:
>> How the heck do you enable command editing (ie, up/down arrows, tab
>> for
>> table name completion, etc, etc) in psql on OS X (10.2.x)? I could
>> never get it to work with 7.2 and it doesn't work with 7.3 either. :(
>> I've installed the latest readline and tried about 10 million (give or
>> take) different TERM settings.
>
> Should work if you reconfigure and rebuild PG after installing
> readline.
> Keep an eye on the configure output to make sure it's finding readline.
hehehe. I'm glad you pointed out the obvious. Although I did
recompile/install PG after installing readline, I failed to do a "make
clean" first. No wonder it didn't work. It does now.
eric
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