GNU ed 1.17 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.17.

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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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:
71de39883c25b6fab44add80635382a10c9bf154515b94729f4a6529ddcc5e54  ed-1.17.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 --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

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


Changes in version 1.17:

  * The commands 'q' and 'Q' now work in a global command. (Reported by J. 
A. Harris).

  * The new option '-E, --extended-regexp' has been added. It tells ed to 
use extended regular expressions instead of the basic regular expressions 
mandated by POSIX. (Suggested by Shawn Wagner).

  * Ed now prints the file name in case of read or write error. (Reported 
by Dan Jacobson).


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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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