Hi,
mazoc...@disroot.org wrote on Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 07:21:53AM +0300:
> I am not good at explaining something shortly and clearly to fit into
> proper documentation, so I'll just describe my experience here.
Well, sending patches - even such patches as may not be perfect yet
but require some tweaking - is often better than a bare bug report
because a patch *plus* an explanation often explains a problem more
clearly than the report alone, but when you feel unable to write a
patch, a bare report is OK as well.
> Terminating regular expressions with / or ? is necessary only if they
> are followed by commands, otherwise the following are legal in both
> OpenBSD ed, Plan 9 ed and GNU ed:
> /something
> /
> ?
> g/ing
The cases of addresses and the 's' command have already been fixed
earlier. The v and V commands need no change, and i just committed
the following fix for the g and G commands.
We are still considering more improvements in the vicinity, but i
believe the particular issue you reported is now fully repaired.
If you think it is not, please simply speak up again!
Thanks,
Ingo
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: schwa...@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/07/15 11:57:48
Modified files:
bin/ed : ed.1
Log message:
Explain in which circumstances trailing slashes can be omitted after
the g and G commands, and polish the wording a bit explaining empty
command lists.
Closing a gap in the manual reported by <mazocomp at disroot dot org>.
OK jmc@ martijn@
Index: ed.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ed/ed.1,v
retrieving revision 1.72
diff -u -r1.72 ed.1
--- ed.1 12 Jul 2019 19:28:48 -0000 1.72
+++ ed.1 15 Jul 2019 17:56:37 -0000
@@ -392,14 +392,20 @@
.Ic v ,
and
.Ic V .
-A newline alone in command-list is equivalent to a
+An empty
+.Ar command-list
+is equivalent to a
.Ic p
command.
+In this case, the trailing slash can be omitted.
.Sm off
.It (1,$) Ic G No / Ar re No /
.Sm on
Interactively edits the addressed lines matching a regular expression
.Ar re .
+The trailing slash after
+.Ar re
+can be omitted.
For each matching line, the line is printed, the current address is set,
and the user is prompted to enter a
.Ar command-list .
@@ -415,11 +421,10 @@
.Ar command-list
is the same as that of the
.Ic g
-command.
-A newline alone acts as a null command list.
+command, but an empty command list does nothing.
A single
.Sq &
-repeats the last non-null command list.
+repeats the last non-empty command list.
.It Ic H
Toggles the printing of error explanations.
By default, explanations are not printed.
