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Re: Bash stays in the secondary prompt (PS2) after completing a command
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash stays in the secondary prompt (PS2) after completing a command with `edit-and-execute-command' |
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Fri, 12 May 2017 11:29:45 -0400 |
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On 5/12/17 10:44 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> But other than that, I can't find any reference from POSIX that
> mandates that the edit line must be restored after running the `v'
> command.
Because it doesn't say the equivalent of "execute the current command
line" (as newline does), it's a standard editing command that continues
with the current line buffer. The only thing that gets executed are the
contents of the temp file.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/