Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I do not think ed is a joke. I think ed is a program I do not use, a 
program I do not like, and a program I am voluntarily maintaining to 
help the GNU project just because nobody else wants to maintain it.

The '-' argument of ed is a bizarre thing, but AFAIK '%' is simply 
redundant. I won't add code to the already complex definition of address 
ranges in ed to support this. Much less make it depend on 
POSIXLY_CORRECT. I do not have the time to do this. Slavish adherence to 
past releases' behaviour is specifically not a goal for me.

I do not want to impose anything to anybody. If it is true that ed has a 
community, it will be easy to find somebody willing to maintain it. Or 
perhaps Redhat could pay someone (not me) to maintain ed. Maybe even one 
of you is able to give a reason beyond backward compatibility to support 
'%'. In the meantime I will only fix "real" bugs in ed.

Regards,
Antonio.