Question

Let’s say I execute the following command in either BASH or Kornshell:

$ foo | while read line
> do
>    echo "Line = '$line'"
> done

If I have vi set, and edit it in Kornshell, I get:

foo | while read line
do
     echo "Line = '$line'"
done

If I have vi set, and edit it in BASH, I get:

foo | while read line;do;    echo "Line = '$line'";done

Is there a way I can get command line editing in BASH the same way Kornshell works?

Answer 1

You need to enable the lithist (literal history) option which tells bash to retain the newlines:

$ shopt -s lithist