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sed documentation error

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From: Phil Hartman <hartmanengineer <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-sed <at> gnu.org" <bug-sed <at> gnu.org>
Subject: sed documentation error
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 14:43:49 +0000 (UTC)

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Hi There,
Found a typo in sed, a stream editor, section 4.2
Current:     # replace all leading 9s by _ (any other character except digits, could

Corrected:
     # replace all trailing 9s by _ (any other character except digits, could

Thanks,

  
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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Phil Hartman <hartmanengineer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23895: sed documentation error
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 18:58:20 -0400

tag 23895 confirmed
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Hello Phil,

Thank you for reporting this issue.

> On Jul 4, 2016, at 10:43, Phil Hartman <hartmanengineer <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Current:     # replace all leading 9s by _ (any other character except digits, could

The wording has been corrected in this commit:
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=b63b14863195a56fab16f4d42728cc5ec3f92cb7
And was included in sed-4.2.2 .
If your system has sed-4.2.1 or older (not unheard of), then it includes the incorrect wording.

Additionally, I see that the online documentation on the website is quite old,
and hasn't been updated since 2010 and thus contains the incorrect wording ( https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/ ).

I'll update it soon, and I'll leave this bug report open until it is updated.

regards,
 - assaf

Message #13 received at 23895-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 23895-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23895: sed documentation error
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:45:19 +0000

Hello,

sed-4.3 was recently released,
and the updated documentation is now available online:
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/

We welcome comments and suggestions about the new manual,
please send them to sed-devel <at> gnu.org .

regards,
- assaf

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