[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.18-pre3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ed 1.18-pre3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.18-pre3.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
8d00b510d3f533c7e9dff9af689834af4e360bb53ad32d43e6d6c5a5e9f54659 
ed-1.18-pre3.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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


Changes in this version:

  * Case-insensitive regular expressions have been implemented as in GNU sed.

  * Syntax errors in regular expressions, for example unmatched ( or \(, no 
longer overwrite a previously compiled regular expression, preventing a "No 
previous pattern" error.

  * Loading a file now fails if it contains more than 2 Gi lines. (Instead 
of overflowing line addresses).

  * ed now sets final exit status to 1 if a fatal error happens while 
reading the file passed in the command line.

  * red now reports "Directory access restricted" instead of "Invalid 
filename" when trying to edit a file outside of the current directory.

  * The new chapter "The 's' Command" has been added to the manual.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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