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Re: A suggestion to add to gnu ed: command line option to start on line


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: A suggestion to add to gnu ed: command line option to start on line foo or bar.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 03:10:22 -0500

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:16 PM John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:

> Great, thanks!  These are in no particular order:
>

I missed one.

Digit string between the letter of the s command and the first delimiter:
Indicates that the nth (rather than the first or all) match is replaced.
This means that digits can't be used as delimiters (which although
currently legal would be a Bad Thing anyway); POSIXLY_CORRECT would
override this feature and allow "s0foo0bar0".


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