Re: [Bug-ed] Two more buglets

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Martin Guy wrote:
> A notice a couple of differences in the 'l' command:
>
> 1) They differ in that GNU ed prints a $ after the last char of each
> line whereas old ed doesn't (and the manual says nothing about this
> except that it "prints the lines unambiguously".

This is why I hate to have a texinfo manual and a man page. They get out 
of sync so easily. The texinfo manual says:

`(.,.)l'
     Prints the addressed lines unambiguously. The end of each line is
     marked with a `$', and every `$' character within the text is
     printed with a preceding backslash. The current address is set to
     the last line printed.


It is perhaps time to begin generating the man page with "help2man".


> 2) Both the manual pages for GNU ed and for old ed's manuals say that
> 'l' paginates the output if it's longer than a screenful:

Pagination (pause mode) was removed long ago (in 2006) by popular 
demand. If you listed by mistake a large file, you were forced to press 
the RETURN key lots of times.


> but neither of them actually does so!

I guess every ed out there has removed pause mode. It was so 
inconvenient! It also seems man pages tend to become obsolete 
everywhere. :-)


> I've published the reason I was examining the code and behviour so
> closely: translating it into Lua:

As you can see, your work is also benefiting GNU ed. Thanks.


Antonio.