Re: bash 5.0.2(1) multiline command in history bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/4/19 3:22 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> Good day -
> 
>   Under bash 4.4.23, with emacs history editing enabled, I can do:
>    $ echo '1
>     > 2
>     > 3
>     > '
>     1
>     2
>     3
>    $
>    and I can then press the <UP-ARROW> (move-up / history-previous) key,
>    and the same command, including embedded new lines in the arguments,
>    is echoed back to me, and I can press <RETURN> to repeat exactly that
>    command (scroll up in history and repeat last command).
> 
>    Now, with bash-5.0.2,  this capability is removed: scrolling up in
> the history,
>    if the previous command had a multi-line argument, shows the multiline
>    argument folded, like:
>     $ echo '1 2 3 '

I can't reproduce this. I get:

$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.0.2(2)-release
$ echo '1
> 2
> 3'
1
2
3
                        [C-P here]
$ echo '1
2
3'



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