On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Clark WANG <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 .
>

93v- 2013-03-17 still has this problem.

>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> > 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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