Re: Suggestion to add debug mode to sed

"Sven Guckes [email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Dan Goldman <[email protected]> [2016-01-19 22:29]:
> Sven's discussion about sedsed got me thinking.
> Wouldn't it be helpful if sed had a debug mode?
> If there were a debug mode, I think the focus should
> be on debugging, showing exactly what sed is doing.

yes - a debug mode certainly is a great feature.
sed should have that, too! :)

> My guess is that a sed debug mode would also be useful for any sed maintainer. ..
> So, if the GNU sed maintainer is listening, I would like to make the suggestion.
> If a different way I need to make the suggestion, could someone
> please forward this post as needed, or steer me in the right direction?

i just updated my info on the sed packages..  (BCC to Clint.)

Sven

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[2016-01-19]
SED HomePage:   http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/
SED ChangeLog:  http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sed/unstable_changelog
SED SourceCode: https://sources.debian.net/src/sed/unstable/
SED packages maintenance:
Debian:
packages    http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sed.html
packages    https://packages.debian.org/src:sed
tracker     https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sed
binaries    https://packages.debian.org/unstable/sed
Maintainer: Clint Adams clint at debian dot org
o-o-stable  4.2.1-7     https://packages.debian.org/source/oldoldstable/sed
oldstable   4.2.1-10    https://packages.debian.org/source/oldstable/sed
stable      4.2.2-4     https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/sed
testing     4.2.2-6.1   https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/sed
unstable    4.2.2-6.1   https://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/sed
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