- update to 1.8
+ Ed now stops reading stdin when reaching real End Of File the first
time. (Before it needed to reach EOF twice).
+ Show the "Try 'ed --help' for more information." message if a bad
option is given in the command line.
+ Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU
Coding Standards.
+ The description of address offsets in the manual and a link to the
Bash manual have been fixed.
+ Displaying of null characters by the "l" command has been fixed.
+ The condition deciding when to show the message "Newline appended" has
been corrected.
+ The "modified" flag is now set when reading a non-empty file into
an empty buffer.
+ An error that prevented using NUL characters in regular expressions
has been fixed.
+ Ed now signals an error if it can't create a shell process when
executing a shell command.
+ Ed now flushes stdout/stderr before reading a new command.
+ Man page is now generated with "help2man". All command-line options
are now documented in the man page.
- use gpg-offline to verify the package tarball
- adapt the Summary and Description according current README