On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 09:43:13PM +0000, Jason McIntyre wrote: > 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 >
i've just updated ed(1) to document that "l" does not mark eols. thanks everyone who contributed some feedback. jmc
