[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.20-pre3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ed 1.20-pre3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.20-pre3.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
813cb9c80e7d3b641e72fdf26909641967c2bacd70168bafcdc52c5e2f5035e5 
ed-1.20-pre3.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify 
and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell 
scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current 
directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the "standard" text 
editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely 
available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 
editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html


Changes in this version:

  * File names containing control characters 1 to 31 are now rejected 
unless they are allowed with the command-line option '--unsafe-names'.

  * File names containing control characters 1 to 31 are now printed using 
octal escape sequences.

  * Ed now rejects file names ending with a slash.

  * Intervening commands that don't set the modified flag no longer make a 
second 'e' or 'q' command fail with a 'buffer modified' warning.

  * Tilde expansion is now performed on file names supplied to commands; if 
a file name starts with '~/', the tilde (~) is expanded to the contents of 
the variable HOME. (Suggested by John Cowan).

  * Ed now warns once the first time that a command modifies a buffer 
loaded from a read-only file. (Suggested by Dan Jacobson).

  * Ed now creates missing intermediate directories when writing to a file.

  * It has been documented that 'e' creates an empty buffer if file does 
not exist.

  * It has been documented that 'f' sets the default filename, whether or 
not its argument names an existing file.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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