On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:57:01PM -0500, Myrddin Emrys wrote:
> I believe you still need the ;, even when doing multiline. So that would be:
> 
> begin;
>  foo;
> end

shouldn't be the case. you don't need them in scripts, so you shouldn't
need them in multiline editing.

> or somesuch. I have nothing against multiline entries being stripped and put
> into the history as a single line... just take out the \<lf> before storing
> it... they are syntactically equivalent. It means the history won't be as
> pretty as when you typed it in the first time, but at least it will be there
> with no syntactic changes.

right.
and if the commandline display makes the linebreaks at the ; then it
would be pretty and correct and backwards compatible too.

greetings, martin.
ps: there seems to be a gmail->sourceforge problem, as myrddin also
can't write to the list.
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