Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Low
Description
The continutation marker is not shown when just hitting Enter (or any whitespace followed by Enter) until a semicolon terminates the "query":
ij version 10.5
ij>
;
ij>
Contrast this with the Bash shell's behaviour, which shows a marker as long as the line's being continued:
MD@sunny ~/derby/trunk
$ \
> \
> \
>
But ij should display a continuation marker until the terminating semicolon, regardless of what's been typed so far.
Attachments
Issue Links
- is depended upon by
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DERBY-3629 Tools Guide should document continuation marker for ij
- Closed
- relates to
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DERBY-2255 ij should indicate that it is waiting for more input in a multi-line interactive statement.
- Closed
The Derby Tools and Utilities Guide, tools/ctoolsij25986.html, could, perhaps, use some mentioning or example of the continuation marker when it speaks about the need to terminate "statements" or "commands" (one could also say "queries") with a semicolon.