GNU ed 1.16 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.16.

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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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:
cfc07a14ab048a758473ce222e784fbf031485bcd54a76f74acfee1f390d8b2c  ed-1.16.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 1.16:

  * The substitute command no longer complains about an 'Infinite 
substitution loop' with a substitution like 's/^/#/g'. (Reported by Bjoern 
Wibben).

  * The length limit of the prompt string has been removed. (Reported by 
Tim Chase).

  * It has been documented in the manual that extended regular expression 
operators may be unavailable depending on the particular regex 
implementation installed in the system running ed. (Reported by Brian Zwahr).

  * Several fixes and improvements have been made to the manual.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.
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