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| -rw-r--r-- | bin/ed/POSIX | 6 |
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diff --git a/bin/ed/POSIX b/bin/ed/POSIX index efa84715db3..68d17654579 100644 --- a/bin/ed/POSIX +++ b/bin/ed/POSIX @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: POSIX,v 1.4 2007/09/24 19:56:34 jmc Exp $ +$OpenBSD: POSIX,v 1.5 2013/11/28 10:04:26 sobrado Exp $ $NetBSD: POSIX,v 1.9 1995/03/21 09:04:32 cgd Exp $ This version of ed(1) is not strictly POSIX compliant, as described in @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ EXTENSIONS encryption algorithm, see the bdes(1) man page. Encryption/decryption should be fully compatible with SunOS des(1). -3) The POSIX interactive global commands `G' and `V' are extended to +3) The POSIX interactive global commands `G' and `V' are extended to support multiple commands, including `a', `i' and `c'. The command format is the same as for the global commands `g' and `v', i.e., one command per line with each line, except for the last, ending in a @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ DEVIATIONS `u' within a global command undoes all previous commands (including undo's) in the command list. This seems the best way, since the alternatives are either too complicated to implement or too confusing - to use. + to use. The global/undo combination is useful for masking errors that would otherwise cause a script to fail. For instance, an ed script |