s/A*./B/g editor bug?

[Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}]

In article <6606 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Brian Beattie's Software-Tools-derived 'ed' works fine, so it looks like
>Kernighan got it right.

Indeed.  The "Georgia Tech 'se' Screen Editor", which is also derived from
the Software Tools 'ed', gets it right as well.  ('Se' is available in your
nearest comp.sources.unix archive.)
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