3.4 Splitting Long Commands

Long commands may be split over multiple lines in scripts provided that each line of the command is terminated with a backslash character, whereupon the following line will be appended to it, as in this example:

pyxplot> print  2 $\backslash $
.......>       +3
5

Such lines splits will be used extensively in this manual where command lines are longer than the width of the page.