[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.18-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ed 1.18-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.18-rc1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
8384295126caf09c2ec3e87a3d3de675d06b25fe6bb117618f7b0aeb14d1d09c 
ed-1.18-rc1.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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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:

  * The shell escape command (!) now flushes stdout so that the modified 
command is always printed before being executed even if standard output is 
fully buffered (for example, a file). (Reported by Sören Tempel).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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