Re: Ctrl+A with multi-line history

[Chet Ramey]

Mikel Ward wrote:
> When I enter a command over multiple lines, e.g.
>
> for f in *; do
>     echo $f
> done
> <Enter>
>
> Then I press <Up> 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:
> > shopt cmdhist
> cmdhist         on

Try it without this option enabled, since the behavior you're objecting
to is what this option is intended to provide.

Chet
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