Sorry for getting defensive, and yes I think Leif’s suggestion is much better than mine. A statistics program I use (R) has a simple and elegant solution: it drops the cursor one line and puts in a “+” sign. For example, here I enter the command “read” at the command prompt (>), and then forget to close the parenthesis:
> read(
+
That doesn’t solve the other potential problem, of forgetting to add the backslash to internal commands, or of putting a semicolon on them, but if I remember the error output was clearer in the latter case.
John
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