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# 169  
Old 09-07-2010
Sorry, crosspost. I tried vi mode too, which mashed it all on one big line. I'm building a newer ksh(2009 release, as opposed to the 2007 I had before) and we'll see if that's got the multi line feature.

[edit] Nope. Either I'm missing an important option, or that's very version-specific, very OS-specific, or both.

Last edited by Corona688; 09-07-2010 at 07:44 PM..
# 170  
Old 09-07-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Sorry, crosspost. I tried vi mode too, which mashed it all on one big line.
Correct, but that big line has embedded new-lines, not semi-colons so if it is edited in the real vi (v command), it is left unchanged. Bash doesn't provides this feature.
# 171  
Old 09-07-2010
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
Correct, but that big line has embedded new-lines, not semi-colons so if it is edited in the real vi (v command), it is left unchanged.
That's just nitpicking, then. They're both equally ugly, and bash's "modification" doesn't change it in any way that actually matters.
# 172  
Old 09-07-2010
You are missing my "v" command comment. If I edit with vi a previous multi-line command, its formatting is preserved with ksh but not with bash. That might be nitpicking for someone unused to multi-lines editing but definitely not to me as I'm doing this all the times.
# 173  
Old 09-07-2010
Yes, it is a nitpick, because you're not pointing out a broken or missing feature: You're just complaining that it's not ksh. I do multi-line editing quite frequently. BASH substitutes semicolons where appropriate, and breaks across lines -- real lines, not ^J -- otherwise. You can also disable the semicolon substitution with "shopt -s lithist" if you want.

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# 174  
Old 09-07-2010
Thanks for the lithist options that I was definitely missing, and please don't attribute to nitpicking what can be explained by ignorance ... Smilie
# 175  
Old 09-07-2010
I guess I'm not familiar enough with vi-mode editing to understand why the semicolons matter. Sorry.
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