This is indeed a weird bug. It completly ignores all control characters. Even though pgcli uses almost exactly the same code and works fine. I marked the bug as critical for now as it makes mycli impossible to use.
November 27 2015 10:06 AM, "François Gannaz" <francois.gan...@free.fr> wrote: > Package: mycli > Version: 1.5.2-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Launching `mycli mydb` connects to the DB and I am able to write a SQL > query with proper completion. Yet I cannot execute it. > > Placing `;` at the end of the line is ineffective. Pressing Enter or > Ctrl-j has no visible consequence. I tried several times with Smart > completion off, Multiline off, and vi mode, but it had no effect on > this. > > Incidently, I could not execute "quit" so I had to kill mycli.