Re: ed doesn't warn about readonly files early enough

[Andrew L. Moore]

In message <address@hidden>, Dan Jacobson writes:
>$ ed /etc/passwd
>1022
>a
>this is an important line
>.
>w
>/etc/passwd: Permission denied
>
>Now it tells me.  The average other editor would tell me "readonly"
>right off the bat.  How about warning me at the "a", or "i",

Will be corrected in the next release.  Thanks (Xie`xie).

>       USD:12-13

"A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor"
and
"Advanced Editing on Unix"

These articles appear(ed) in various UNIX documentation, including
the original BSD which "USD" refers to.  Unfortunately, they are
not freely distributable.  Another resource that should probably
be included is teach(1) (or quiz(1) in 4.4BSD).
-AM