[Idle-dev] IDLE "shell" (was: IDLE interpreter window)

[Paul Jackson]

|> bash didn't invent any of this; ksh was way earlier

Users of bash or the Public domain Korn shell (pdksh, or ksh
on Linux), might note that when recalling a multiline command
from the history, the shell scrunches the original multiline
form into an equivalent single line form.  Annoying.

Thankfully, interactive Python (and Korn's original ksh on Bell
Labs Unix) got this right: preserving the multiline form when
recalling history.


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