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Emacs movement bindings
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Description
When using pgcli with emacs bindings, I'll often have a long multi-line query
> SELECT a, max(b), c
FROM t
WHERE ...
GROUP BY a, c
...
when point is in the middle of the query, I don't know how to get to the start of the prompt other than pressing up-arrow several times. Perhaps this was different before https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/issues/106, I'm not sure.
One option I can think of is to introduce the emacs paragraph and sentence bindings.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Paragraphs.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sentences.html
there are also a bunch more useful movement bindings
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Moving-Point.html
I'm not sure where they'd all go given the extraction of some readline bindings discussed in https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/issues/56#issuecomment-234368457.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the existing Emacs and extracted readline bindings, then review the linked prompt-toolkit discussions; done should mean users can move to the start of a multi-line query and use the selected useful Emacs movement bindings.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- emacs, python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100