GNU ed 1.21 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.21.

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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ed/ 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ or from your favorite GNU mirror.

The sha256sum is:
60e24998727d453a5cf02c54664b97536de46a2b34cd1f4f67c1c1a61bbbad75  ed-1.21.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.21:

  * 'r !command' and 'w !command' ignore again the exit status of 
'command'. Bug introduced in version 1.6. (Reported by Andrew L. Moore).

  * Include 'stdbool.h' instead of defining 'bool' to fix compilation in 
C23. (Reported by Alexander Jones).

  * The messages "Newline inserted" and "Newline appended" are now 
suppressed in scripted mode (-s). (Reported by Artyom Bologov).

  * The chapter 'Syntax of command-line arguments' has been added to the 
manual.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to bug-ed@gnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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