On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Janis Papanagnou <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I suppose it's the fact that after _closing_ the whole clause with double
> quotes and hitting <enter> the shell is _not_ supposed to answer with
> PS2 asking for continuation, rather responding with PS1, ready for a
> new command.
> I cannot confirm that with version t+ but the poster tried two newer
> releases, u+ and v+.
>

Seems like it's caused by the jj KEYBD trap given by David here:
http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2012q1/002947.html .
Another KEYBD related issue is
http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2012q4/003713.html .

>
> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:17:50 -0500
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [ast-users] [ksh93] Line continuation problem in
> interactive shell
> >
> > cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] [ksh93] Line continuation problem in
> interactive shell
> > --------
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Clark WANG <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > See following example:
> > > >
> > > > $ echo ${.sh.version}
> > > > Version JMP 93u+ 2012-06-06
> > > > $ echo abc\ <== This is fine.
> > > > > def
> > > > abcdef
> > > > $ echo "abc\
> > > > > def" <== It still waits for input after pressing ENTER.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > 93v- 2013-02-13 still has this problem.
> > >
> >
> > I don't understand the problem. Inside "", \<newline> is special
> > and means line continuation. This is defined in the last paragraph of
> > section 2.2.3 of the posix standard.
> >
> > David Korn
> > [email protected]
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>
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