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Add note about editing previous command. #11

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Expand Up @@ -2,19 +2,23 @@ Title: Editor
Slug: editor
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One of the powerful slash commands is `\e`. This will launch an editor to edit the current query.
One of the most useful slash commands is `\e`. This will launch an editor to
edit the current query (or previous query, if the current query is blank).

Here are some examples:

Here are some examples:

```

# This will launch the default editor (read from $EDITOR env variable).
> \e
# It will put the previous query in the editor's buffer.
> \e

# This will open the default editor with the current query in the buffer.
> SELECT * FROM \e

# This will open an existing file in the editor and the contents of the file will be populated into the repl once the file is saved.
# This will open an existing file in the editor and the contents of the file
will be populated into the prompt once the file is saved.
> \e <filename>

```