Re: [Bug-ed] Change in ed 1.14.1

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello,

Tyler Spivey wrote:
> One change in ed 1.14.1 is particularly annoying during interactive use.
> Specifically, the file access errors no longer appear (no such file or
> directory, permission denied, etc).

It was not my intention to annoy anybody. :-)

I changed the condition for the file diagnostic from '!scripted' to 
'verbose' because the posix standard[1] states that:

  -s
      Suppress the writing of byte counts by e, E, r, and w commands
      and of the '!' prompt after a !command.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed.html

It says nothing about '-s' affecting diagnostic messages.

But I see that the file diagnostic replaces a byte count in case of 
error. So probably it makes the most sense to print it if !scripted.

I have just uploaded a corrected version[2]. If no more annoyances 
appear, I'll release it as 1.14.2.

[2] http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.14.1a.tar.lz


Best regards,
Antonio.