On 2025-07-20 12:23, Kent Dorfman wrote:
In my old age I decided to start coding with tabs instead of "four
spaces" so I set TABSIZE=4 in my shell and mostly my editors and xterms
are OK with it. However, there are some xterm window geometries that
break column alignment for the (ls) command (especially with long
filenames). I built the latest coreutils from source and the problem
still remains...after eight years or ticket inactivity? First noticed
this problem with Debian11 using coreutils8.3
I can't reproduce the problem with coreutils 9.7, the current version.
Please try the following:
* Run "tabs -4" *after* changing the xterm window size.
* Upgrade to Coreutils 9.7.
* Run 'stty -a' and make sure its output agrees with the actual xterm
size. Also, make sure it outputs the capability "tab0".
* Use GDB on 'ls' and investigate what values it assigns the variables
'line_length' and 'tabsize'.
If all those check out but you still see the problem, I'll have more
suggestions.
