On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Ezequiel Garz?n wrote: > Hello, everyone. I've noticed that in OpenBSD ed(1) doesn't mark the > end of each line with a '$' when the list command 'l' is invoked. Is > this a deliberate deviation from the POSIX standard? Is there any > rationale for it? It looks like this should help "print the addressed > lines unambiguously" when dealing with trailing spaces, no? > > Thanks and cheers, > > Ezequiel >
i don't know, but i'd like to. there is nothing in bin/ed/POSIX concerning `l', but commit history to that file is not exactly inspiring. there is nothing in the posix page for ed documenting whether this is something recent. it's there in 2008, and in the 2013 update. it would be good to know how other bsds behave, and whether the behaviour is considered desireable. then we'd know if behaviour should be changed, or whether a doc update is enough. if i don;t get any concrete feedback on that, i'll update the doc. anyone want to chip in? jmc
