Re: Mulit-line aliases and PROMPT_COMMAND

[Dan Douglas]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Grisha Levit <grishalevit@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
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>> > Since bash 4.3 multi-line aliases interact very strangely
>>
>> And you're the first person to report them.  I guess there aren't a lot of
>> multi-line aliases out there.
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>
> I wonder if more crazy use cases will come out of the woodwork when RHEL and
> SUSE finally get 4.3..

I think when they're used in an actual script rather than for
interactive convenience multiline aliases are some of the more useful
ones. The 4.4 changes will make aliases even more interesting.