Guido Berhoerster dixit:

>Not being able to edit a multi-line command in the builtin editor
>is not a big deal (and the same in ksh93 and ksh88), however
>storing each line as a separate history entry is IMHO broken
>because such history entries become essentially useless as they
>cannot be re-input.

They can, ^O is your friend.

>Could you modify the history code to store multiple lines as a
>single item? I just checked and that is the behavior of the

That would break the format *and* prevent reentry of old history
lines (except with a multi-line FCEDIT).

bye,
//mirabilos
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