Re: GNU ed 1.20.2 released

2024-04-26 Thread Richard Stallman
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  > I am somewhat ashamed to announce the release of GNU ed 1.20.2.

Condolences on the new release.

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GNU ed 1.20.2 released

2024-04-25 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz

I am somewhat ashamed to announce the release of GNU ed 1.20.2.

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify 
and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell 
scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current 
directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the 'standard' text 
editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely 
available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 
editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.


The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ed/ 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ or from your favorite GNU mirror.


The sha256sum is:
65fec7318f48c2ca17f334ac0f4703defe62037bb13cc23920de077b5fa24523 
ed-1.20.2.tar.lz


This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run this command to import it:


  gpg --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.20.2:

  * A bug has been fixed that made global commands like 'g/x/s/x/x', with 
the last delimiter omitted, print every substituted line twice.

(Bug introduced in 1.18. Reported by Douglas McIlroy).


Please send bug reports and suggestions to bug-ed@gnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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