Re: Warn when editing read-only files

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
> > It would be nice if ed understood ~ in pathnames, however.
>
> This should be doable, as ed already uses HOME to save ed.hup in the
> user's home directory. Also, POSIX seems to say nothing against (or
> about) expanding '~' to $HOME in file names like '~/foo'.

I have already implemented tilde expansion in ed; '~/foo' is now expanded to 
'$HOME/foo'. The change will appear in the next version of ed in a few days.

Antonio.