Eric Blake wrote:
During today's Austin Group meeting (the folks working on POSIX), we noticed an inconsistency in GNU ed when compared to other implementations. It seems that ALL implementations we tested allow 'q' to quit immediately after an 'e' that failed because the buffer still has unwritten modifications: [...] We then tried to figure out what other commands, if any, can be used in between notification that a buffer was modified and a followup attempt to quit. On MacOS, 'h' does not count as an intervening command:
Thank you very much for reporting this. I'll implement both behaviors in GNU ed as soon as possible (in a few days).
Best regards, Antonio.
