Re: using ^M to insert a new line

[Kurtis Rader <krader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The $'' syntax should do what you want:

 $vcs ci -m $'short\nlong'

On 2009-07-21, at 09:23 , Vadim Zeitlin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I used to use literal ^M (entered as Ctrl-V Ctrl-M or Ctrl-V Enter) to
> insert new lines on zsh command line, e.g.:
>
> 	% $vcs ci -m "Short description^MLonger description"
>
> (for vcs=="git" you can just use 2 -m options but AFAIK the others  
> don't
> support this). I don't actually know if this was ever supposed to  
> work, as
> Ctrl-M does stand for "\r" and not "\n" but the fact is that it used  
> to for
> quite some time, I don't remember when did I start doing this but it
> definitely worked in 4.3.2 under Cygwin and Debian.
>
> But now that I upgraded to 4.3.10 I've found with some surprise that  
> using
> literal ^M now inserts "\r" and not "\n" under both Debian and Cygwin.
> Under the latter there is also a new bug with completing DOS-style  
> paths
> (mentioned e.g. at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/102250  
> but I
> could find no trace of it in zsh-xxx archives nor any mention of a  
> fix) so
> I rolled back to 4.3.4 which is the oldest zsh still available in  
> Cygwin
> and it handles ^M in the same way, so the change to this happened  
> between
> 4.3.2 and 4.3.4, i.e. a long time ago so maybe nobody remembers why  
> was
> this done any more but I'd still be curious to know if this change was
> intentional and also if there is any way to insert a "\n" on the  
> command
> line now other than using ^J (which does work but also visually  
> breaks the
> line which I dislike).
>
> TIA!
> VZ


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