Re: [9front] sed: fix moving '^' match

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

> You are way more creative than most then.

no. this is about parsing the man page carefully.

>I tend to think that lines only have
> a single beginning and that `echo "blah"` writes a single line.

i wouldn't disagree at all.




we must be disagreeing about some fundamental understanding instead.
it's hard for me to see still where *exactly* we differ.

just to make sure. you are aware of the other basic symmetrically
asymmetric problems that one encounters in everyday life with sed,
right? the asymmetry between input and output...


cpu% echo aa | sed 's/aa/a/g'
a
cpu% echo aaaa | sed 's/aa/a/g'
aa
cpu% echo aaaaaa | sed 's/aa/a/g'
aaa
cpu% echo aaaaaaaa | sed 's/aa/a/g'
aaaa
cpu% echo aaaaaaaaaa | sed 's/aa/a/g'
aaaaa


is this a basic known fact here?!