sort --key-debug

2009-06-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
I find it quite difficult to determine correct key positions to use, especially given the complicated rules for (global) -b options etc. I wonder would it be useful to add a --key-debug option, which would mark in the output the keys used. For multibyte locales you could use: ⌜key1⌟ blah blah⌜

Re: sort --key-debug

2009-06-12 Thread James Youngman
Sounds like a great idea to me. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: sort --key-debug

2009-06-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I find it quite difficult to determine correct key positions to use, especially given the complicated rules for (global) -b options etc. I wonder would it be useful to add a --key-debug option, which would mark in the output the keys used. For multibyte locales you