From 6fea7f0d3c4d30ddc78db9e798a3ef9427abbc6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:26:38 +0000
Subject: 28332: backslash-newline with HIST_LEX_WORDS

---
 Src/hist.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Src/hist.c')

diff --git a/Src/hist.c b/Src/hist.c
index 1c626fd76..0eeb98fb0 100644
--- a/Src/hist.c
+++ b/Src/hist.c
@@ -2358,8 +2358,18 @@ readhistfile(char *fn, int err, int readflags)
 		     incnode(wordnode)) {
 		    char *word = getdata(wordnode);
 
-		    while (inblank(*pt))
-			pt++;
+		    for (;;) {
+			/*
+			 * Not really an oddity: "\\\n" is
+			 * removed from input as if whitespace.
+			 */
+			if (inblank(*pt))
+			    pt++;
+			else if (strpfx("\\\n", pt))
+			    pt += 2;
+			else
+			    break;
+		    }
 		    if (!strpfx(word, pt)) {
 			int bad = 0;
 			/*
-- 
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