On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Steven Terpe < geckosentme.xbox...@hotmail.com> wrote:
The long error is ‘Missing Pattern Delimiter’. Which I get, but I don’t > see this as an improvement, because what I want to do by issuing the > command `s/xyz` is a given. Plus there is issue of backwards compatibility > of ed scripts which could now be broken by this change as well as an > unnecessary deviation from the common behavior of BSD ed and previous > versions of GNU ed. > I agree, and urge you to make ed work like Posix ex, which demands that all of s/foo/bar/, s/foo/bar, s/foo/, and s/foo do the right thing; the last two replace foo with nothing. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org After fixing the Y2K bug in an application: WELCOME TO <censored> DATE: MONDAK, JANUARK 1, 1900
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