bug#5976: 23.1.93; yanking shell commands - converted to single lines

[Warren Harris <warrensomebody@gmail.com>]

On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Juri Linkov wrote:

>> To reproduce:
>>
>> 1. cut the following command:
>>
>> echo 'hello
>> world'
>>
>> 2. M-x shell
>> 3. paste and hit return
>> 4. see the following echoed:
>>
>> hello
>> world
>>
>> 5. C-x k (kill shell)
>> 6. M-x shell
>> 7. M-p (yank back last command)
>> 8. see that you only get:
>>
>> world'
>>
>> 9. M-p (yank again)
>> 10. see that you only get:
>>
>> echo 'hello
>
> Doing this in bash, I get the same result because it saves multi-line
> commands on separate lines in ~/.bash_history and reads each line as
> a separate command.  Why should Emacs be different in this regard?

I could have sworn that aquamacs 1.9 preserved multi-line shell  
commands across shell sessions, but perhaps I'm mistaken. It certainly  
does preserve multi-line shell commands within a single shell session.

Warren