On 3/26/15 8:28 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> So why not make a thrid mode like:
> - if cmdhist=on lithist=not-in-file
> which keeps:
> if true; then\n
> echo foo\n
> fi
> in the history
> but writes the serialised "if true; then echo foo ; fi" to the history
> file.
Because there are a number of keywords and metacharacters that can be
followed by a newline but not a semicolon (e.g. `while'). There's just
not a one-for-one correspondence.
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