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Re: A suggestion to add to gnu ed: command line option to start on line
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Martin Guy |
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Re: A suggestion to add to gnu ed: command line option to start on line foo or bar. |
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Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:04:49 +0100 |
On 19/02/2023, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> I would suggest [...] line argument +n causes the current line to be n,
> and [...] +/pattern causes the current line to be the first line matching
> the pattern.
I concur. I was surprised to find that it doesn't already do this.
Let's call it a GNU extension :)
Would you like to prepare a patch to review?
That way, even if it doesn't get accepted for mainline,
we can all have our own versions that do :))
M