Version 1.2-rc1 of GNU ed
Release Notes: The man page is now installed by default. "make install-info" should now work on Debian and Mac OS X. The license of the manual has been updated to GFDL version 1.3 or later.
Other releases
Release Notes: No user-visible changes were made. Ed now stops reading stdin when reaching the real End Of File the first time. Previously it needed to reach EOF twice.
Release Notes: Shows the "Try 'ed --help' for more information." message if a bad option is given on the command line. Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding Standards. The description of address offsets in the manual and a link to the Bash manual have been fixed. The configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to follow GNU Standards. The target "install-bin" has been added to the Makefile.
Release Notes: The description of address offsets in the manual has been fixed.
Release Notes: Ed now shows the "Try 'ed --help' for more information." message if a bad option is given on the command line. Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding Standards. The "--datadir" configure option has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to follow GNU Standards.
Release Notes: Displaying of null characters by the "l" command has been fixed. The condition deciding when to show the message "Newline appended" has been corrected. The "modified" flag is now set when reading a non-empty file into an empty buffer. An error that prevented using NUL characters in regular expressions has been fixed. Ed now signals an error if it can't create a shell process when executing a shell command. Ed now flushes stdout/stderr before reading a new command. All command-line options are now documented in the man page.
