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Version 1.2 of GNU ed

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• 1.6

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•  02 Jan 2012 23:04
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• Stable

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.

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• 1.6-rc5

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•  25 Nov 2011 20:20
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• Development

Release Notes: An error which 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 and flushes stdout/stderr before reading a new command. The man page is now generated with "help2man". All commandline options are now documented in the man page. A portability problem on Linux SPARC has been fixed.

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• 1.6-rc1

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•  02 Apr 2011 03:00
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• Development

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.

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• 1.5

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•  06 Sep 2010 13:42
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• Stable

Release Notes: The "a", "c" and "i" commands have been fixed. (When used in a global command list, the commands following them in the list were ignored). The "e" command has been fixed. (It quitted when invoked a second time with a modified buffer). The new option "--restricted" has been added. "red" has been converted to a script invoking "ed --restricted". The description of ed in the manual has been changed. Obsolete POSIX tests have been removed from the testsuite.

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• 1.5-rc3

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•  21 Jul 2010 15:48
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• Development

Release Notes: Some tests have been improved and obsolete POSIX tests have been removed from the test suite. A small error in the manual has been fixed.