Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4

[John Cowan]

Antonio Diaz Diaz scripsit:
> The use of '%' as an address range has been removed from ed. Please, use 
> ',' or give me a good reason to support it again.
> 
> Hint: "it breaks many scripts" is not a good reason for me.

Ed is all about backward compatibility, and removing features is not
the way toward new releases.  I hope this is not one of your jokes,
like the announcement that the '-' argument was being removed.

You are digging a Very Deep Pit for yourself here.  You may think
'ed' is a joke, but it has a community that mainly uses it for
scripts and does not expect those scripts to break.

If you want, turn off '%' when POSIXLY_CORRECT is true.

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