Re: psql and readline comments

On 14/01/2019 16:59, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I agree -- it doesn't make sense to treat the insert-comment command as
> inserting a #, which is not a comment for psql.  I use meta-# often in
> bash and I'm never happy to have to resort to manually prepending "--"
> in psql in order to make the current line a comment instead.

I have found

rl_variable_bind("comment-begin",";");

in the clisp code, so it seems it's not unheard of to do this sort of thing.

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