Re: Ctrl+A with multi-line history

2008-09-07 Thread Mikel Ward
Hi Chet Thanks for your reply. Disabling cmdhist stores each line separately in the history, which I don't want. The documentation says C-a goes to the start of the line, not the start of the entry. Trivial or an RFE maybe, but I think it's a bug nonetheless. My ideal would be: At the end of a

Re: Ctrl+A with multi-line history

2008-09-07 Thread Chet Ramey
Mikel Ward wrote: When I enter a command over multiple lines, e.g. for f in *; do echo $f done Then I press to go back to that history entry, Ctrl+A takes me to the start of the entire multi-line command, rather than to the beginning of the "done" line, as I would expect. Settings: shop