I wrote and posted:
>> Recommendation: Provide the capability to disable the prompt.
Then I read the damn manual:
'P'
Toggles the command prompt on and off. Unless a prompt string is
specified with the command-line option '-p', the command prompt is by
default turned off. The default prompt string is an asterisk ('*').
So ... if you want no prompt (in other words, a zero length prompt)
in some scripted invocation of ed, just don't specify the "-p" option.
Problem solved. It all works as coded, documented and standardized.
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Paul Jackson
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