Re: Differences in `ne` and `bp` line-breaking behavior

[Douglas McIlroy]

 Re: Differences in `ne` and `bp` line-breaking behavior

> I have discovered recently that `ne` and `bp` behave differently in
> regards to pending input lines. `bp` breaks such lines, while `ne`
> does not. In practice this means that `ne` does not behave like a
> conditional `bp` as one would reasonably expect.

I invented .ne 55 years ago and have never heard a complaint about its
design before. It is not a conditional .bp, because that would case a
line break, which .ne never does, nor should.

Doug