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Re: [Bug-ed] [patch] proposal: adding '^' address


From: Andrew Moore
Subject: Re: [Bug-ed] [patch] proposal: adding '^' address
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:50:31 -0400

Antonio Diaz wrote:
] Well, accepting the '^' character as an address is not required by POSIX[1].
] [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed.html

SUSv4, which you link to above, states:

    Historically, ed accepted the '^' character as an address...

Even Brian W. Kernighan’s ed(1) tutorial, which probably dates back to the early 70’s, references ‘^’ as an address.  What are you thinking?
-AM

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