GNU ed 1.15 released

From: Antonio Diaz Diaz Subject: GNU ed 1.15 released Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:41:19 +0100 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.15.

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display,

modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via

shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in

the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the

"standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for

Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is

superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ed/

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ or from your favorite GNU

mirror.

The sha256sum is:

ad4489c0ad7a108c514262da28e6c2a426946fb408a3977ef1ed34308bdfd174

ed-1.15.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by

appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because

you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742 Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739 FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742 Changes in version 1.15:

* The list command has been fixed to print a backslash before every

'$' character within the text. (Reported by Ori Avtalion).

* Address ',,' has been fixed to mean '$,$' instead of '1,$'.

(Reported by Matthieu Felix).

* A 's' command that is part of a 'g' or 'v' command-list can again

split a line by including a newline escaped with a backslash '\' in the

replacement string. For this to work, the closing delimiter of the

replacement string can't be omitted unless the 's' command is the last

command in the list, because otherwise the meaning of the escaped

newline would become ambiguous.

* Following a recent change in the POSIX standard, the 'c' command no

longer accepts an address of 0, and the documentation for the 'i'

command now explains that it treats address 0 as meaning "at the

beginning of the buffer", instead of as a synonym for address 1.

* Minor fixes have been made to the manual.

* The configure script now accepts appending options to CFLAGS using

the syntax 'CFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.

Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden Regards, Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer. --

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