Re: A suggestion to add to gnu ed: command line option to start on line foo or bar.

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Andrew L. Moore wrote:
> This has been supported by ed for nearly 50 years. Adding a new flag
> doesn't provide any new functionality, but it does break portability.
>
> Having said that, if Antonio chooses to add an explicit flag, please
> let it be something other than '-e', which is already used by sed to
> introduce a script on the command line.

AFAIK, GNU ed behaves as expected, so I do not plan to add any explicit flag 
to change its current exit-on-error behavior.

I have reserved '-e' to introduce a script as you suggest, in case I 
eventually implement the script feature.

Best regards,
Antonio.