Motivation: Give people (including Windows users) copy-pasteable commands they can simply use as-is (regardless of platform).
On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 10:51:12 AM UTC Dan Andersson wrote: > Hi, I'm aware that backslashes can be used for Bash. > I was referring to the *interactive* session (after doing only > "bean-query foo.beancount"). I guess I was hoping it wouldn't "complete" a > command until it sees a semicolon, but currently it seems to complete a > command after every newline. > > On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 3:01:39 PM UTC bl...@furius.ca wrote: > >> This is a bash question. Look at how multiple lines are handled in bash >> (should be lots of info online). >> >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 9:24 AM Dan Andersson <danande...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> After doing bean-query foo.beancount to enter the interactive session, >>> can I somehow copy-paste multiple lines in there? >>> >>> It seems like multi-line queries (e.g. the examples in the >>> documentation), when pasted in there, always get split into one command per >>> line, resulting in errors. >>> >>> Do I always have to combine those lines first, before pasting them? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> DA >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Beancount" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beancount+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/50b1d037-b464-4838-ae46-58ffc250e8b8n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/50b1d037-b464-4838-ae46-58ffc250e8b8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/782b5ed0-a61e-487f-9f60-5d5757aaccd1n%40googlegroups.com.
