How to force straight splines with Graphviz record

Question

There are multiple questions e.g. here, here, and here. Asking how to force straight edges for connectors in Graphviz (dot).

The answers include:

• splines=line;
• splines=false;
• compiling with neato
• and a longer example that creates straight lines by creating invisible nodes.

(How) can I force straight connectors from the top of one record to another with this example without resorting to invisible nodes (if possible)?

digraph select {
    splines=line;
    // splines=false;
    node [shape=record];
    rec1 [label="<f0> left|<f1> middle|<f2> right"];
    rec1:f0:n -> rec1:f2:n;
}

Edit: a question was asked - how can the record have a connecting edge if it's one record and how can that not be straight?

A record can point at different parts of itself. The question is how to get that to be straight i.e. go out turn at a 90 degree angle, go, turn at a 90 degree angle, and connect?

i.e. not a curved edge: