echo -e H \\nq|ed /dev/null

[Dan Jacobson]

$ echo -e H \\nq|ed /dev/null
0
?

hey, I thought H was supposed to give me verbose error messages and
not just ?

Odd, all I sent it was
$ echo -e H \\nq
H 
q

And when I do it by hand I get no backtalk:
$ ed /dev/null
0
H
q

$ ed --version
GNU ed version 0.2
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