thanks for that pointer, that sounded like it could solve the problem, but i didn't...

i think the lithist option means a multiline command like: 

$ for i in *.pl
do
echo $i
done
$ <arrow up>
$ for i in *.pl ; do echo $i; done
$ shopt -s lithist
$ <arrow up>
$ for i in *.pl
do
echo $i
done

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the problem appears if command arguments itself have newlines, an easy example is 
$ echo "
word
"

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so it would work if one calls perl with multiple -e args: 
$ perl -wle'print 1;' \
-e 'print 2;'

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but that's ugly, isn't it? =)

update: but i still think it should work because if i type in a multiline perl command and type arrow-up immediately after that i get all my lines like i typed them in. just storing in the history doesn't seem to work.

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