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24.3.50; Multi-line shell commands appear as one-liners in the history

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>
Cc: 16012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16012: 24.3.50; Multi-line shell commands appear as
 one-liners in the history
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:22:48 +0200

Sebastien Vauban <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com> writes:

>>> ls \
>>> *.html
>>>
>>> Recalling the previous command will just show "*.html", not "ls
>>>\\n*.html".

I can confirm that this behaviour is still present in Emacs 28.

> I've just read notes about "Comint Patch":
>
>   ╭────
>   │ If you enter a multi-line SQL statement in an SQLi buffer, you can
>   │ retrieve it as a multi-line command from the MinibufferHistory. Not so
>   │ when you exit Emacs and restart it at a later date: As you exit SQLi
>   │ mode the command history is written to a file; when you enter SQLi mode
>   │ again the history is loaded one command per line. If you entered
>   │ multi-line commands, each line of those commands will end up as one
>   │ command in the input history of your new session.
>   │ 
>   │ This patch will be in Emacs 21.
>   ╰────
>
> See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-es/ComintPatched
>
> Aren't we talking of this bug?  If yes, why isn't it yet in Emacs, then?

Presumably nobody submitted it -- and that URL doesn't exist any more.
Does anybody have the patch in question?

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