> > Reductio ad absurdum. I had overreacted somewhat. My apologies. It was a knee jerk reaction because so often people do ask for things which are much different than what the program is designed to do or that already exists in other programs.
> > I am suggesting that cut merely be taught to recognize random > > amounts of whitespace as a delimiter, which would make it a more > > useful utility without changing its other behaviors. That point you make "without changing its other behaviors" is a key point which I had missed previously. Sometimes it is required to break backward compatibility. But one should not do so gratuitously. > > That would no more make it an awk than adding a JATO unit to a car > > would make it a space shuttle. http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html > Bad News : gnu textutils must be 100% compatible with the past > > Good News : I needn't be. > > See : http://alexautils.sourceforge.com > > Which has this change for cut, plus many other improvements to gnu utils. I think you mean http://alexautils.sourceforge.net which does indeed have many interesting additions and extensions. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
