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bug#5976: 23.1.93; yanking shell commands - converted to single lines
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Thierry Volpiatto |
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bug#5976: 23.1.93; yanking shell commands - converted to single lines |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:13:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>>> Doing this in bash, I get the same result because it saves multi-line
>>> commands on separate lines in ~/.bash_history and reads each line as
>>> a separate command. Why should Emacs be different in this regard?
>>
>> I could have sworn that aquamacs 1.9 preserved multi-line shell commands
>> across shell sessions, but perhaps I'm mistaken. It certainly does
>> preserve multi-line shell commands within a single shell session.
>
> Bash preserves multi-line shell commands within a single shell session too
> when its shopt option `cmdhist' is set.
>
> There is also the option `lithist' that replaces newlines with semicolon
> separators. But it doesn't help because it doesn't replace newlines
> inside command line arguments.
>
> So I see no way to save multi-line shell commands in ~/.bash_history
> in a way compatible with Bash. Do you have any ideas?
It seem eshell does what you ask, maybe you should look there?
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Thierry Volpiatto
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