Re: [Bug-ed] Two more buglets

[Martin Guy]

On 8 April 2011 17:23, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.

I agree. Drop binary file support from GNU ed?
Would that upset anyone?

However BSD ed, which I presume is derived from the original sources, if you
$ ed /bun/ls
w ls
q
$
you get an identical file, wthout aby newline-adding nonsense :)

   M