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Re: [Bug-ed] Different behavior GNU ed and oed


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: Re: [Bug-ed] Different behavior GNU ed and oed
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:05:56 +0100
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Hi Bjoern,

Bjoern Wibben wrote:
:g/test/s/^/#/g
infinite substitution loop

Thanks for reporting this.

GNU ed has always behaved like this for non-empty replacements of empty matches, but it could be more clever and notice that /^/ can only match once in a line and ignore the 'g' suffix.

I'll fix this as soon as possible.


Best regards,
Antonio.



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