Ed - A line-oriented text editor
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Introduction
GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display,
modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via
shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in
the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the
"standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for
Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is
superseded by full-screen editors such as
GNU Emacs or
GNU Moe.
Documentation
The manual is available in the info system of the GNU
Operating System. Use info to access the top level info
page. Use info ed to access the ed section directly.
Download
The latest released version of GNU ed can be found in the
subdirectory /gnu/ed/ on your favorite
GNU mirror.
For other ways to obtain ed, please read
How
to get GNU Software. The latest released version will be the most
recent version available at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ed/.
Old versions and testing versions can be found at
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/.
How to Get Help
For general discussion of bugs in ed the mailing list
bug-ed@gnu.org
is the most appropriate forum. Please send messages as plain text.
Please do not send messages encoded as HTML nor encoded as base64 MIME
nor included as multiple formats. Please include a descriptive subject
line. If all of the subject are "bug in ed" it is impossible to
differentiate them.
An archive of the bug report mailing list is available at
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ed.
How to Help
To contact the author, either to report a bug or to contribute fixes or
improvements, send mail to
bug-ed@gnu.org.
Please send messages as plain text. If posting patches they should be in
unified diff format against the latest version. They should include a
text description.
See also the
ed
project page at Savannah.
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Updated: $Date: 2009/01/30 18:02:38 $ $Author: antonio $