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uutils/sed

A rewrite of the sed text editing tool in Rust, aiming to work the same as GNU sed.

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  1. 24 Oct 2026

    Word start and word end markers now work on their own

    What was broken
    The markers for the start and end of a word only worked when something else made the pattern a full search. On their own, sed looked for real angle brackets, unlike GNU sed.
    What I changed
    These two markers now always turn on full pattern search, like the other word boundary markers already did.
    Why it matters
    Find and replace with whole words gives the same result as GNU sed.

    see the code, #612 (opens in a new tab)

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