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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 5f590af3f..a9c6d295e 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the + workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug. + 2007-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * coreutils.texi (base64 invocation): When decoding, newlines 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 |