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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-12-01 12:15:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-12-03 03:37:23 +0000 |
| commit | 30384428a497bee7e04d493e4801d3b8297fe952 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d9587d2e895ad3ffab29c8363b3e37d40e0acc8 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | e20d2ea1260ef1ecd086879548ef8ac2c573d785 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-30384428a497bee7e04d493e4801d3b8297fe952.tar.xz | |
doc: remove obsolete info on terminal alignment bugs
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Remove the note about
OSX terminals not aligning properly as this is no longer the case.
Tested by: Philipp Thomas
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c3237304d..c818a1e20 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7648,11 +7648,9 @@ Assume that each tab stop is @var{cols} columns wide. The default is 8. @command{ls} uses tabs where possible in the output, for efficiency. If @var{cols} is zero, do not use tabs at all. -@c FIXME: remove in 2009, if Apple Terminal has been fixed for long enough. -Some terminal emulators (at least Apple Terminal 1.5 (133) from Mac OS X 10.4.8) -do not properly align columns to the right of a TAB following a -non-ASCII byte. If you use such a terminal emulator, use the -@option{-T0} option or put @code{TABSIZE=0} in your environment to tell +Some terminal emulators might not properly align columns to the right of a +TAB following a non-ASCII byte. You can avoid that issue by using the +@option{-T0} option or put @code{TABSIZE=0} in your environment, to tell @command{ls} to align using spaces, not tabs. @item -w |