Doesn't work with multiline history records

[zdmytriv]

Doesn't work with multiline history records

echo """1
2
3
"""

after looking up in hstr it finds and inserts only echo """1\ which only first line.

[dvorka]

I admit that this behavior is intentional as I didn't know how to fit multi-line history records in commands list nicely...

@zdmytriv @max-lobur would you have any suggestion/preference how can I improve HSTR? Like making multi-line command single line and indicating new lines using a character... any other idea?

[max-lobur]

@dvorka thanks for takin a look. "\n" will be totally ok, usually other lines are just args, I primarily search for a command name not args, so this will work. Kind of

command --arg 1 --arg 2 \n...

or

command --arg 1 --arg 2\n--arg 3 --arg 4 

both will be better than trimming

[dguendisch]

How about simply indenting the multilines by 1 or 2 whitespaces? As of now all history entries start on the very left, so indenting could be used to hint at a multiline entry.

[max-lobur]

You would lose too much useful space

[aljungberg]

Even if it didn't show all the lines, at least if it could insert them right that'd be much better already.

[metaflow]

Am I also fine if it displays first line only as long as long as full version is used.

[edmuthiah]

This would be super useful! Currently having a difficult time with ROS commands like:

rostopic pub -r 10 /husky_velocity_controller/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist "linear:
  x: 0.0
  y: 0.0
  z: 0.0
angular:
  x: 0.0
  y: 0.0
  z: 0.0" 

Does shopt -s cmdhist make a difference? This link might be useful: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/353386/when-is-a-multiline-history-entry-aka-lithist-in-bash-possible/353407

[Sispheor]

Is there any workaround for this?

[sant527]

I am also looking for this

[DavidCDreher]

Same here!

Initially I had both shopt -s cmdhist and shopt -s lithist enabled, but this doesn't work. Just having shopt -s cmdhist enabled works somewhat. When it's possible the command will be a single line separated by ;. But for example multiline strings are still not supported

[atlas-comstock]

I am also looking for this

[muratcankaracabey]

same here