GNU ed 1.15 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.15.

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superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.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:
ad4489c0ad7a108c514262da28e6c2a426946fb408a3977ef1ed34308bdfd174 
ed-1.15.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 --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

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


Changes in version 1.15:

  * The list command has been fixed to print a backslash before every 
'$' character within the text. (Reported by Ori Avtalion).

  * Address ',,' has been fixed to mean '$,$' instead of '1,$'. 
(Reported by Matthieu Felix).

  * A 's' command that is part of a 'g' or 'v' command-list can again 
split a line by including a newline escaped with a backslash '\' in the 
replacement string. For this to work, the closing delimiter of the 
replacement string can't be omitted unless the 's' command is the last 
command in the list, because otherwise the meaning of the escaped 
newline would become ambiguous.

  * Following a recent change in the POSIX standard, the 'c' command no 
longer accepts an address of 0, and the documentation for the 'i' 
command now explains that it treats address 0 as meaning "at the 
beginning of the buffer", instead of as a synonym for address 1.

  * Minor fixes have been made to the manual.

  * The configure script now accepts appending options to CFLAGS using 
the syntax 'CFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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