Using \e within the psql shell will drop you right into your $EDITOR, which is likely vim. You can edit commands in there directly and they will be evaluated wh

Using \e within the psql shell will drop you right into your $EDITOR, which is likely vim. You can edit commands in there directly and they will be evaluated when you :wq out. The next time you type \e it will load the previous command back into the editor My only issue with this workflow is when I want to yank the command out to the clipboard. For some reason it doesn't seem to respect clipboard settings on OS X.