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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:50:43 +1100
From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command
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The command
  g/^/m0
works in ed because the move commands are done in sequence.
In sam and (supposedly) acme, they're done atomically, and result
in a big no-op.  They have a completely different model of execution.

The acme problem is just a bug that should be fixed.

-rob