Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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.
We disagree. IMHO, it would be unwise to make such a global sacrifice for a single, buggy, closed-source terminator emulator. However, if someone tells me which version of Apple Terminal is affected, I'll mention the work-around in the coreutils README file. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils