Is there a way to keep bash for reformatting my history?

I commonly want to do something with a bunch of files, so I type in something like: $ for nam in *.c > do > echo $nam > done Aaah, I failed to use upper case C so I go to edit again and since I have set -o vi in my .bashrc, I go to edit in vim and it comes up: for nam in *.c; do echo $nam; done I deliberately entered newlines in between the commands, I don't want/need bash to improve my text by putting it on a single line. In this case, it is no big deal but if I had several variables and commands, the bash-ification is a pain. Is there a way to keep bash from reformatting my history?