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GNU ed 1.0 was released last weekGNU ed 1.0 was released last weekPosted Aug 27, 2008 11:01 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) by flewellyn Parent article: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)
I don't know how many years it was in development, but version 1.0 of GNU ed came out August 21st 2008. There's not much additional info on the GNU ed page.
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GNU ed 1.0 was released last week Posted Aug 27, 2008 11:52 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
From NEWS, it seems this is seriously radical stuff:
The option "--program-prefix" has been added to the configure script.
A buffer overflow has been fixed.
GNU ed 1.0 was released last week Posted Aug 30, 2008 18:15 UTC (Sat) by bryanr (guest, #25324) [Link]
A buffer overflow, in ed, in 2008? Computer security is such an amusing and depressing reflection of mankind
GNU ed 1.0 was released last week Posted Aug 31, 2008 11:34 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Hey, look on the good side: it's unlikely anyone exploited it :)
(my mother just stopped using Windows 3.1, jumping to XP and Ubuntu. It
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