Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 15:58:59 +0200
From: Tobias Wendorff <tob...@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <0c8f8899-0421-0aa7-2ecd-2167018c3...@gmx.de>
| Is this behavior planned or unplanned? The problem doesn't seem to
| appear on Bash 4 (Debian Jessie, Cygwin on Windows).
Not for me to say, but I'd expect unplanned (ie: a bug).
| On IRC, an user gave me the hint to set `shopt -s lithist`, which seems
| to work. The documentation of `lithist` is very ambiguous, so I don't
| know the downside of this option.
Interesting, an option I haven't used. If it acts like it says it should,
the only downside should be the appearance of multi-line history entries,
for the command
while sleep 4
do
echo awake
done
instead of the normal
while sleep 4; do echo awake; done
in the historu, you get the original, with the newlines embedded
(though it appears some semi-colons are still added), that is, I got
while sleep 4;
do
echo awake
done
(I didn't really type the indented "echo" as shown above).
That ';' is harmless. The longer form just makes history entries
occupy more vertical space, and be slightly harder (IMO) to edit,
otherwise there should be no difference.
kre
