On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz <anto...@gnu.org> wrote: > What CVS? Latest code is 1.13.
Whoops, I was under the mistaken assumption that the code on Savannah is the latest. It's very old and perhaps should be removed. https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ed/ > "The use of printing commands with printing suffixes (such as pn, lp, and so > on) was made unspecified because BSD-based systems allow this, whereas > System V does not." > > [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed.html I think "unspecified" only relates to the output, specifically whether things should be printed once or twice...? The way the it's worded, commands are only allowed one suffix letter: "any command (except e, E, f, q, Q, r, w, and !) can be suffixed by the letter l, n, or p" (I'm interpreting "the letter" to mean "a *single* letter") "pln" in your example should be invalid, and seems equivalent to the valid "nl"/"ln" commands. I don't have a strong opinion on this. I'm looking into ed internals, came across this odd behavior, and thought about reporting it :) _______________________________________________ bug-ed mailing list bug-ed@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ed
