On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > "ls" with a tab size other than 8 produces mis-formatted output in my > in Xterm, gnome-terminal and Linux console (see attached screenshots).
Obviously! If you tell ls that the terminal's tab width is something other than the actual value, ls will draw incorrect conclusions about the effect of printing a tab character. If the --tabsize argument matches the terminal's idea of what to do with a tab character, the output will be aligned. I don't know offhand how to modify your X11 terminal emulator's idea of where the tab stop is, but it's easy to do this on a GNU/Linux virtual console: t=8; setterm -regtabs $t; ls --tabsize=$t /etc t=4; setterm -regtabs $t; ls --tabsize=$t /etc ... and so on. By the way, congratulations on producing a model bug report. IMHO we're not talking about a bug, but your email included all the information needed for us to help. If only everyone did this so well. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
