[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.20-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ed 1.20-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.20-pre2.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
6c74c378c85534da37aaa0cda0135a040f831c36b8589a5f40d713bc050f82c6 
ed-1.20-pre2.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify 
and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell 
scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current 
directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the "standard" text 
editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely 
available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 
editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html


Changes in this version:

  * New command line options '+line', '+/RE', and '+?RE' have been 
implemented to set the current line to the line number specified or to the 
first or last line matching the regular expression 'RE'.
(Suggested by Matthew Polk and John Cowan).

  * The description of the exit status has been improved in '--help' and in 
the manual.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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