Re: Reading more than one expression on the same line

[Dirk Herrmann]

On 12 Jan 2001, Neil Jerram wrote:

> Maciej's point raises the question of what the next prompt should be.
> I would argue that, since the beginning of the next top-level
> expression has already been entered, it should be the continuation
> prompt "... ", not "guile> ".  Further investigation shows that, if my
> argument is accepted, the readline code has this wrong:
> 
> guile> 'foo '(bar
> foo
> guile> )
> (bar)
> 
> should according to my argument be
> 
> guile> 'foo '(bar
> foo
> ... )
> (bar)
[...]
> What do you think?

Not having looked at the patch I can at least say that I follow your
argument and that your proposed behaviour is IMO the right thing.

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann