Re: [PATCH] Fix loading of multi-line history entires from disk

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> So, check out the following.  This includes Augie's patch (backs out
> 30433) and adds an attempt at changing the output (appends a space after
> an even number of backslashes appearing at the end of an entry).

That seems as minimal and compatible as we're going to get.

Is it worth appending something syntactically null but a little more
complicated that we can strip on input with little likelihood of
stepping on anyone's toes?  " ; "?   Unless we do attempt that, appending
a simple space is as good as anything.

pws