Re: Historical question on y command

On 2014-02-23 16:28, Pedro Izecksohn wrote:

I agree that it's a delight to see the old guard hanging out on the
list after such a long time.

> I invented the 'D' command and the back-slash followed by the
> line-feed that follows the commands 'a', 'i' and 'c'. And I regret
> having suggested all these features.)  

While you're welcome to regret the backslash-linefeed for a/i/c,
please don't regret "D", as I use it enough to miss it considerably
were it not to be there.  Even if it could roughly be replicated with
something like

  s/^[^\n]*\n//;n

However, that could alter the successful-substitution flag for t/T
which is a side effect that would make me need to work around.

So thanks for your and all the others who make & maintain sed!

-tkc