From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:10:04 +0000 (+0100) Subject: * coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_8~73 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd77348fefb4d834e6945ee11190ce7b4a9224a1;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcoreutils.git * coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug. --- diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 5f590af..a9c6d29 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-01-19 Jim Meyering + + * coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the + workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug. + 2007-01-04 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (base64 invocation): When decoding, newlines diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6fc6704..89e97d8 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