Not quite. It prints line 3, "red fish". .+1p is only the default for the null
command in the absence of a specified address or range of addresses.

vks

On 10/22/19 2:21 PM, John Cowan wrote:

Exactly as expected.  You have said "1,3" which sets dot to 3.  Then you
give it the null command, which is equivalent to .+1p.  So naturally it
prints line 4.



On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:34 AM Eric Lindblad via bug-ed <bug-ed@gnu.org>
wrote:

System: Slackware Linux (version 14.2)
CPUs: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @1.60GHz
Deps: ed-1.13.tar.xz

Ranges don't seem to work as demonstrated in opening the below file in ed
then typing 1,3 RET.

bash-4.3$ ed --version | head -n 1
GNU ed 1.13
bash-4.3$ wc -l geisel
4 geisel
bash-4.3$ cat geisel
one fish
two fish
red fish
blue fish
bash-4.3$

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