[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.14.1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.14.1.

GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of 
the standard Unix line editor.

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 sha1sum is:
a91f785f7e16dc68e1c9c86d532ebd9698171ba0  ed-1.14.1.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.14.1:

(This stable version is numbered 1.14.1 because a bug making ed crash 
with some malformed commands was discovered after releasing 1.14, but 
before announcing it. Thanks to Hanno Böck for reporting this bug).

  * Version 1.14 is the largest bug hunt ever attempted in GNU ed. Other
goals of version 1.14 are to complete the documentation and to remove
any gratuitous incompatibilities with the POSIX standard. Thanks to Ori
Avtalion for initiating all this with a couple bug reports. ;-)

  * Byte counts, informative messages, command error messages, and the 
'?' and '!' prompts are now written to stdout instead of to stderr. The 
standard error (stderr) is now used only for diagnostic messages.

  * The current address is now correctly set to the addressed line 
after an empty insert command.

  * Inconsistent behavior of the substitute command has been fixed. It 
incorrectly reported 'Invalid pattern delimiter' when the two last 
delimiters were omitted after a null regular expression. Now it 
consistently reports 'Missing pattern delimiter' if the two last 
delimiters are omitted after any regular expression (null or not).

  * 's/a/%' has been fixed. It incorrectly replaced 'a' with '%' 
instead of using the replacement from the last substitution.

  * An infinite loop, happening when EOF was found in the middle of a 
replacement string, has been fixed.

  * Ed no longer accepts newlines in the replacement of a 's' command 
if it is part of the command list of a global command, because in this 
case the meaning of the newline becomes ambiguous. For the same reason, 
the last delimiter can't be omitted if the 's' command is not the last 
command in the command list.

  * The substitute command now correctly sets the current address to 
the address of the last line on which a substitution occurred, and 
leaves it unchanged if no substitution is performed.

  * A bug in the calculation of address offsets has been fixed. '3 ---- 
2' was calculated as address -2 instead of the correct address 1.

  * Address ranges with the first address omitted are now accepted.

  * The current address is now correctly set to the addressed line (or 
to the new last line if at EOF) after an empty replacement text in the 
change command.

  * Repeated print suffixes are now rejected. It has been documented 
that ed allows any combination of non-repeated print suffixes and 
combines their effects.

  * The substitute command now accepts suffixes in any order.

  * The 'repeat substitution' command now rejects multiple count suffixes.

  * The 'p' suffix of the 'repeat substitution' command now toggles all 
the print suffixes of the last substitution.

  * End of file on standard input now behaves as a 'q' command.

  * The modified status is no longer cleared after writing the buffer 
to the standard input of a shell command. (Reported by Jérôme Frgacic).

  * The descriptions of the 'a', 'c', 'e', 'g', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'm', 
'q', 'r', 's', 'u' and 'w' commands in the manual have been fixed.

  * Most tests in the testsuite have been improved. Bug reporting has 
been simplified; only the failed logs and results are kept in the test 
directory, which can then be (tarred, compressed, and) attached to the 
bug report.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.