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

[Bill Webb]

>...
> It would be rather difficult to recover an original V6 source, and I
> probably couldn't make it run on a Sun to check.  I may be able to give
> a definitive answer about V7 next week.
> -- 
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I've just tried it on a Version 6 ed (I knew that PDP 11 simulator would
eventually come in handy!) that had only one slight modification over the
standard v6 ed (it output a prompt character) and it has the bug. I could
probably recompile the original ed.c (dated May 13, 1975) and test that but
I expect it has the bug as well, but I'd have recreate the simulated v6
environment to do so which would take a few hours.

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