On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 07:50:15AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:13 AM Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've attached a patch that corrects the behaviour.
> > For the type of lines mentioned, the patch makes the history behave
> > more like Bash history.
The behavior of bash is configurable here:
|HISTCONTROL
| A colon-separated list of values controlling how commands are saved on the history list. If the list of
valuesincludes ignorespace, lines which begin with a space character are not saved in the history
| list....
> I have my doubts that you've really fixed anything here since Bash is a
> line-oriented shell while psql is a statement-oriented one. This is a
> feature.
Hm, I don't think bash is "line oriented" ? You can type anything into it that
you'd put in a shell script. For example:
$ for a in `seq 1 3`
> do
> echo $a
> done
1
2
3
--
Justin