[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-4652) cqlsh previous command handling

["Dave Finnegan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Dave Finnegan created CASSANDRA-4652:
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             Summary: cqlsh previous command handling
                 Key: CASSANDRA-4652
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4652
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Dave Finnegan
            Priority: Minor


In a terminal shell commands can be entered in multi-line mode, similar to cqlsh. However, the previous command prompt (up arrow, ^p) provides the previous command as a single line which can then be edited without having to type the previous command key stroke for each of the multiple lines that were originally entered.

So, rather than entering a 5 line command and then hitting the previous line keystroke 5 times to reissue the command, then 5 times to reissue the second line of the command (which you may edit), then 5 times again for line 3, 5x for ln4, 5x for ln5 and finally completing the command, you can simply hit the previous command keystroke, edit this (now complex) line, and reissue.

It would be nice if cqlsh would include this same sort of behavior for previous command prompting as there are many cases where the previous command is used and these commands are often multi-line.

I know that I could just type the original command as one, long, complex command line, but cqlsh really wants to take multi-line commands.

So, this is a simple ease of use request.

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