Re: inserting a single dot line: patch --ed seems to generate incorrect results (unlike ed)

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello all,

On Mon 2004-06-28 Tobias Reif wrote:
>   $ diff --ed old new > diff.ed
>   $ cat diff.ed
>   1a
>   ..
>   .
>   s/.//
>   a
>   .
>   $
> 
> (the last two lines seem unnecessary, btw)

well, this result is quite logical, as each line which contais just a dot
is replaced by
        ..
        .
        s/.//
        a

Anyway, you are right and we can optimized this out.
The appropriate patch to diffutils-2.8.7 is attached to this mail.

Paul, will you accept it?

Stepan

diffutils-2.8.7-ed-optimize.patch
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