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Here is a possible bug in documentation for 4.4

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Message #16 received at 28140-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: bamber ward <dlward134 <at> gmail.com>, 28140-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28140: Here is a possible bug in documentation for 4.4
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:28:22 -0600

On 2017-10-12 12:31 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> On 18/08/17 09:34 AM, bamber ward wrote:
>>> manual 4.4
>>> section 7-8
>>>   sed -E ':x {N ; s/\n/ /g ; s/(.{40,40})/\1\n/ ; /\n/!bx ; P ;D}'
>>> does not work as described.
> 
> I'm thinking of the attached patch,
> which replaces the overly terse (and incorrect) example
> with a longer version with better comments.

Push here:
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=490b4997

regards,
 - assaf

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