GNU ed 1.21.1 released

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.21.1.

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 For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 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.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ed/

The sha256sum is:
d6d0c7192b02b0519c902a93719053e865ade5a784a3b327d93d888457b23c4b 
ed-1.21.1.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

   gpg --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.21.1:

   * Fixed a compilation failure caused by the inclusion of the unused and 
obsolete header <sys/file.h>. (Reported by Michael Mikonos).

   * Ed now reads the initial window size for the z command from the 
environment variable LINES. (Suggested by Artyom Bologov).


Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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