Antonio Diaz Diaz scripsit: > What do other users of ed think about this?
I call it a bug. POSIX is very clear: If changes have been made in the buffer since the last w command that wrote the entire buffer, ed shall warn the user if an attempt is made to destroy the editor buffer via the e or q commands. The ed utility shall write the string: "?\n" (followed by an explanatory message if help mode has been enabled via the H command) to standard output and shall continue in command mode with the current line number unchanged. If the e or q command is repeated with no intervening command, it shall take effect. Reading in a file certainly counts as a change in the buffer, so a q command in that circumstance should be rejected. I suppose a case could be made that if the read-in file is empty, the modified flag should not be set, but I think that would be more confusing. -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; co...@ccil.org Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; http://ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner) _______________________________________________ bug-ed mailing list bug-ed@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ed
