Bug#627481: column does not notice ANSI color escapes

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:15:37PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: column seems to treat \e as having a width of 0 instead of skipping \e[m and similar sequences, so tables that use color don't line up (regardless of how TERM is set). These codes depend on the terminal used, right? So just to

Bug#627481: column does not notice ANSI color escapes

2012-01-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Meskes wrote: These codes depend on the terminal used, right? So just to get this straight, you think column should get the valid escape sequences for the terminal it runs in and then filter those out? Yep, if libtinfo makes that easy to do. Otherwise, checking for ANSI standard

Bug#627481: column does not notice ANSI color escapes

2011-05-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 8.2.2 Tags: upstream Severity: wishlist column seems to treat \e as having a width of 0 instead of skipping \e[m and similar sequences, so tables that use color don't line up (regardless of how TERM is set). For example: -- 8 -- $ git branch | column ab/i18n