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

[Augie Fackler <raf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 08:58:45PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 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.

Makes sense. Thanks to both for the thorough explanation of the
problem. A space sounds reasonable, as does " ; ". Thanks for the
quick responses!

>
> pws