Re: expanding sed's manual with more examples

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Prompted by a question to sed-devel@ ( 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sed-devel/2016-10/msg00000.html ),
>
> Attached are few additions to the documentation.
> They add examples of each of the common commands,
> And expand the a,y commands.
> It makes the documentation a bit more verbose, but I believe it's better to 
> be verbose than terse (in this case).
>
>
>   doc: add examples to the 'Often-Used Commands' section
>   doc: add example to the 'y///' command
>   doc: expand the 'a' command, add examples
>
>  doc/sed-in.texi | 173 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  doc/sed.texi    | 173 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
> If this is a good direction, I'll similarly expand the rest of the commands.

Very nice. Thank you.
TIL:

address@hidden provides an extension address syntax of @address@hidden
+to acheive the same result:
+
address@hidden
+$ seq 6 | sed '0~3s/./x/'
+1
+2
+x
+4
+5
+x
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