Jim Meyering wrote:
> Um... it *is* possible to use TABs after non-ASCII bytes and get correct
> alignment. The only requirement is that you be using a reasonable
> (non-buggy) terminal emulator.
Yes, sure. I was only pointing out that the proposed change wouldn't need
a doc change, because the wording in the doc is already vague.
> >> in the mean time, advise people to use "-T0"
> >> (or set TABSIZE=0 in their environment) if they care about alignment
> >> when using a buggy version of that particular terminal emulator.
>
> Do you really think it would be better to make everyone pay (even a tiny bit)
> when there is such an easy work-around?
Given that
- Apple Terminal is the default/normal terminal emulator on MacOS X,
- networking/pipe speed are not critical nowadays (in the times of
internet radio and streaming video),
- the bug was tricky enough to analyze, that an average user couldn't do
it by himself,
I would say yes in this case.
Bruno
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