Re: funsub in PS2

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/26/24 9:49 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Having funsubs in PS2 seems to cause input tokens that are split across
> lines to be partially replaced with the last token of the last funsub
> to be parsed while expanding the prompt string.
>
>      $ PS2='${ : XXXX; }> '
>      $ printf '[%s]\n' ab\
>      > cd
>      [XXcd]

Thanks for the report. This was a surprisingly involved fix, just to save
and restore the parser state.

Chet
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