Sorry for getting defensive, and yes I think Leif's suggestion is much
better than mine. A statistics program I use (R) has a simple and elegant
solution: it drops the cursor one line and puts in a "+" sign. For example,
here I enter the command "read" at the command prompt (>), and then forget
to close the parenthesis:
> read(
+
That doesn't solve the other potential problem, of forgetting to add the
backslash to internal commands, or of putting a semicolon on them, but if I
remember the error output was clearer in the latter case.
John
John Payne
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