Continuing Commands on the Next Line

The continuation character, a backslash (\), lets you continue a command past the end of the line. The backslash must follow a space and must be the last character on the line. When you press Return, the debugger echoes the backslash after the Debugger Input: prompt.

Some debugger commands take a list of items separated by commas as an argument. If you enter one of these commands and press Return when a comma is the last non-blank character on the line, the debugger automatically continues the line.

The debugger also continues a line that contains unbalanced brackets, braces, or parentheses. Note, however, that the debugger balances only delimiters of the same type as the outermost delimiter.

When unbalanced brackets, braces, or parentheses are entered in menus or in dialog boxes, the debugger prompts for completion on the command line.