Re: ed not even $HOME expands

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:

|> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Jarc <address@hidden> writes:
|> 
|> Paul> Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
|> >> $ ed
|> >> r  ~/.signature_news_en
|> >> ~/.signature_news_en : No such file or directory
|> 
|> Paul> ed ~/.signature_news_en
|> 
|> OK, if that's the way to deal with lack of expansion by this user
|> level tool [ed], then to be consistent would you want to remove
|> expansion from the other editors too?
|> 
|> And I didn't want to edit ~/.signature_news_en, I only wanted to read
|> it into the buffer.

$ ed
r !cat ~/.signature_news_en

Andreas.

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