Janus breaks \e in psql

[davetapley]

Something in Janus is causing this issue:

I'm trying to edit a query using \e in postgres, but upon savequitting :wq nothing happens. Running \p, which shows what the editor saved, just comes up with a blank line, or whatever I ran most recently in the cli. It seems likethe editor is not persisting whatsoever.

I've confirmed that if I remove the .vimrc installed by Janus, then the issue goes away.

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Things get even weirder when I tried to dig deeper:

If I do \e then append to the file outside of vim, the issue still occurs.
This is probably best demonstrated by example, see here.

[davetapley]

I've suggested a workaround on the Stack Overflow question:

In the interim add the following to your ~/.profile as a workaround:

export PSQL_EDITOR="vim -u NONE"

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See:

• vim -u switch.
• PSQL_EDITOR env var.