I'm currently going through the source code for ed and given that stuff like second_address is in multiple files and multiple functions, it's a bit confusing how to do this. For anyone who knows more about the program source code than I do, which file do you think I should be looking into for this? With a casual glance at it, it appears that ed just dumps the file contents into a buffer and just sets the last line as the default. Any suggestions?
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 7:07 AM John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> wrote: > > Sounds good to me, but I don't have the time/energy to write the code at the > moment. > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 6:04 AM Martin Guy <martinw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 19/02/2023, John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> wrote: >> > I would suggest [...] line argument +n causes the current line to be n, >> > and [...] +/pattern causes the current line to be the first line matching >> > the pattern. >> >> I concur. I was surprised to find that it doesn't already do this. >> Let's call it a GNU extension :) >> Would you like to prepare a patch to review? >> That way, even if it doesn't get accepted for mainline, >> we can all have our own versions that do :)) >> >> M
