Re: [Bug-ed] Two more buglets

[John Cowan]

Martin Guy scripsit:

> Searching for NUL characters using /^@/ matches any line, whether or
> not it contains NULs.
> and you can't all eliminate NUL characters with 1,$s/^@//g  (that's a
> NUL there, control-V address@hidden  There doesn't seem to be a syntax for
> control characters other than \n and its friend)

Ed is meant to edit text files, not arbitrary binary files, and NUL
should not appear in text files, as it has no textual meaning.

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