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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-01 12:15:34 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-03 03:37:23 +0000
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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
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
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@@ -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