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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-01-19 12:10:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-01-19 12:10:04 +0100 |
| commit | fd77348fefb4d834e6945ee11190ce7b4a9224a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 616e76dc2c9754733440ab847eafeabf6fff5448 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | 03b1e07ae02d06d27a18836fa29ac2149bf08601 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-fd77348fefb4d834e6945ee11190ce7b4a9224a1.tar.xz | |
* coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the
workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6fc670479..89e97d8bc 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -6419,6 +6419,13 @@ 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-@acronym{ASCII} byte. If you use such a terminal emulator, use the +@option{-T0} option or put @code{TABSIZE=0} in your environment to tell +@command{ls} to align using spaces, not tabs. + @item -w @itemx --width=@var{cols} @opindex -w |