PATCH: another one of those

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Index: Src/hist.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/hist.c,v
retrieving revision 1.104
diff -p -u -r1.104 hist.c
--- Src/hist.c	7 Oct 2010 16:49:50 -0000	1.104
+++ Src/hist.c	8 Oct 2010 17:04:13 -0000
@@ -2358,8 +2358,18 @@ readhistfile(char *fn, int err, int read
 		     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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