Version 1.6 of GNU ed
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.
Other releases
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.
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.
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.
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.
