[hacknews] ed

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/24/84)

Ed(1) has been altered slightly to avoid problems associated with slashes
in helpfile names.  As a result of this, it is now possible to document
addresses fully (the '/' form was the bottleneck before...) and this has
been done.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/10/84)

Ed(1) has had one more minor improvement added:  when the slash (or
whatever) that ends a pattern is the last thing on a command line, it
can be left out.  Note that this does *not* apply to the slash that
ends an 's' command.

Unless some nasty bug turns up, this probably marks the end of ed work
except for possible changes for compatibility with future versions of
the crash-recovery mechanism.  The work of the last month or so has
fixed all (known) readily-fixed bugs.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry