Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jim,
This behavior is not specified, and is currently untested.
(it's a GNU invention, from Bruno Haible in textutils-1.22d,
which was back in 1997)
The intention of this option is and was to measure the maximum number of
screen columns used by a
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Arnaldo Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear maintainers,
There is a bug in the implementation of the -L parameter in wc.
It is triggered by
http://www.ime.usp.br/~am/122/eps/gapqm2.gz
Check this out:
$ zcat gapqm2.gz |wc -l -c -L
1 6297954
Jim Meyering wrote:
I'm tempted to make the change, but it seems too drastic, after 11 years.
Do any of you rely on the current TAB-counting behavior of GNU wc?
Hi,
It looks like TAB characters aren't alone in being counted by printed
width rather than count:
$ echo '好' | wc -L
2
Does it
Bo Borgerson wrote (on Aug 22, 2008):
Does it make sense to change the behavior for TAB, but not for wide
characters?
Relying on an undocumented tab length seems bad. However, on chars I
suggest you just apply the bug-feature operator: document that line
length is in chars, and explain
Hi Jim,
This behavior is not specified, and is currently untested.
(it's a GNU invention, from Bruno Haible in textutils-1.22d,
which was back in 1997)
The intention of this option is and was to measure the maximum number of
screen columns used by a file. For many purposes, people are
