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concam on Oct 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Visidata 2.0

My visidata protip is using it as a pager for terminal database clients. I'm using it with mycli/MySQL right now but it should work with any client that lets you use a custom result pager. This setup has entirely replaced gui db clients which I've found to be consistently awful.

jasonl99 on Oct 15, 2020 [–]

I can't figure out how to get it configured as a pager (in postgres). I've been using pspg set in my .psqlrc.

I changed it to \setenv PAGER 'vd' and I just get a big chunk of text with no ability to navigate columns. How are you doing it with mysql?

snthpy on Oct 15, 2020 | [–]

I'm also interested in an answer to this.

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