Re: potential inconsistency with buffer modified flag

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Eric Blake wrote:
> During today's Austin Group meeting (the folks working on POSIX), we
> noticed an inconsistency in GNU ed when compared to other
> implementations.  It seems that ALL implementations we tested allow
> 'q' to quit immediately after an 'e' that failed because the buffer
> still has unwritten modifications:
> [...]
> We then tried to figure out what other commands, if any, can be used
> in between notification that a buffer was modified and a followup
> attempt to quit.  On MacOS, 'h' does not count as an intervening
> command:

Thank you very much for reporting this. I'll implement both behaviors in GNU 
ed as soon as possible (in a few days).

Best regards,
Antonio.