Re: [PATCH] ed with perl-compatible regular expressions

[Paul Jackson]

>> However, if all non-Posix features are gated behind command-line options

Well, it's true that whatever command line options you add or change won't
cause me any errors when invoking ed(1).  Back when I learned ed(1), it did
not have command line options, other than one optional file name to edit.

So that's how the micro-code in my fingers still works.

But as others noted, there are other risks in changing ed, such as adding bugs
or shared library dependencies.

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                Paul Jackson
                pj@usa.net