[Python-ideas] Option of running shell/console commands inside the REPL

[Oleg Broytman]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 10:24:12PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'm not sure what multiline editing is being referred to above. I 
> personally don't know of one in bash. It may be that you have to turn 
> the feature on -- by default, bash ships with a fair amount of stuff 
> turned off, and the rest hidden behind cryptic keystroke commands.

    shopt -s cmdhist

   From ``man bash``: "If set, bash attempts to save all lines of  a
multiple-line  command  in  the  same history entry.  This allows easy
re-editing of multi-line commands."

> -- 
> Steve

Oleg.
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