[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.17-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ed 1.17-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.17-pre2.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
b7c44f5a7f31245ff5a2259acb3029483b7fc2c001e2e89de5a7b819b98edde5 
ed-1.17-pre2.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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


Changes in this version:

  * 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. (Feature suggested by Shawn Wagner).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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