Re: ed -p '' errors, but shouldn't

[jackson]

I wrote and posted:

>> Recommendation:  Provide the capability to disable the prompt.

Then I read the damn manual:

'P'
     Toggles the command prompt on and off. Unless a prompt string is
     specified with the command-line option '-p', the command prompt is by
     default turned off. The default prompt string is an asterisk ('*').

So ... if you want no prompt (in other words, a zero length prompt)
 in some scripted invocation of ed, just don't specify the "-p" option.

Problem solved.  It all works as coded, documented and standardized.

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Paul Jackson
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