Re: [Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.14-pre1 released

[Ori Avtalion]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Ori Avtalion <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to the POSIX spec, it should be interpreted as 1:
>   "the current line is set to the last inserted line or, if there was
> none, to the addressed line.
>    [..]
>   Address 0 shall be valid for this command; it shall be interpreted
> as if address 1 were specified."
>
[..]
> However, I think the spirit of the text does suggest that the current
> address should be 1. :)

That said, the descriptions for Change and Delete explicitly state "the current
line number shall be set to zero" in some situations, so perhaps if an explicit
address of 0 is given as input, it should be "interpreted as 1" for the purpose
of Insert, but kept at 0 if no input was provided.