Hi Juan,
Juan Lasca wrote:
As suggested by Tim Chase, it seems like a good idea to add the '^' address
to GNU ed, to improve compatibility with other implementations.
Well, accepting the '^' character as an address is not required by POSIX[1].
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed.html
Also, there are many incompatibilities among ed implementations, as
stated in the 'rationale' section of the link above.
So I wonder what is the use of complicating the code, the testsuite and
the documentation just to improve compatibility with other
implementations on this, as your patch defines it, "historical and
obscure feature of ed"?
Best regards,
Antonio.
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