Hello Andrew, Andrew Moore wrote:
] Well, accepting the '^' character as an address is not required by POSIX[1].SUSv4, which you link to above, states: Historically, ed accepted the '^' character as an address... Even Brian W. Kernighan’s ed(1) tutorial, which probably dates back to the early 70’s, references ‘^’ as an address. What are you thinking?
It is nice that '^' appears in a tutorial from the 70's, but as POSIX does not require it, introducing such an historical "feature" in GNU ed would just bring confusion. For example, using '^' in a script would not be portable.
I think that adding the '^' address is just "historical featuritis". Best regards, Antonio. _______________________________________________ bug-ed mailing list bug-ed@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ed
