From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>
Cc: util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: column.1 describe change of separator behavior in bugs section
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:49:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG27Bk3LL6_9oNY9-R8wzKjPd+QZs6TxEgob8fVhAs+TXTU1YQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5066CC39.20408@draigBrady.com>
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 09/29/2012 10:21 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
>> Add to manual page how to achieve old behavior, just in case someone
>> relies on buggy behavior of the command.
>
> Too much info for a man page IMHO.
Hi Pádraig,
You might be right. Karel, feel free to drop the patch if you want to
keep the man page short. If you choose to merge maybe adding a FIXME
comment 'remove column version < 2.23 compatibility note after
29.09.2017' is good idea.
--
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-29 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 20:45 [PATCH] column: make defined separator to be non-greedy Sami Kerola
2012-09-26 21:01 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-09-29 9:21 ` [PATCH] docs: column.1 describe change of separator behavior in bugs section Sami Kerola
2012-09-29 10:23 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-09-29 12:49 ` Sami Kerola [this message]
2012-10-02 8:45 ` Karel Zak
2012-10-02 8:29 ` [PATCH] column: make defined separator to be non-greedy Karel Zak
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