Re: [Bug-ed] Two more buglets

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Martin Guy wrote:
> PS BSD ed (which, yes, is the original v7 ed) does the same but
> without pointlessly saying "newline appended".

The "pointlessly saying "newline appended"" is one of the things that 
have been fixed in 1.6-rc1. From the NEWS file:

"The condition deciding when to show the message "Newline appended" has
been corrected."


And here is how it works:

$ ed -V
GNU Ed 1.6-rc1
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ ed /bin/ls
72608
w foo
72608
q
$ cmp /bin/ls foo
$


Maybe ed does not detect your /bin/ls as a binary file? If this is the 
case, could you send me your /bin/ls so that I can reproduce the problem?


Thanks,
Antonio.