Re: Invoking as 'ed - filename' broken in ed-0.3-pre[12]

[John Cowan]

Antonio Diaz Diaz scripsit:

> This non-standard way of invoking ed has been discontinued in ed-0.3. 
> Use `ed -s filename' instead.

While the - option is not Posix, it is *extremely* ingrained in ed
users' consciousness, and probably in innumerable scripts besides
patch.  The standard meaning of - is stdin, but editing stdin makes no
sense (in the ed model of editing), so no actual confusion should result.

I urge you to reconsider this decision and leave the - option alone.

> In my opinion, GNU patch should be changed to use the standard option 
> `-s'. 

I agree with that.

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