util-linux/text-utils
dana 1ec4c065a2 column: Address fill-order confusion in documentation
Historical versions of column have described the default fill order as
rows-then-columns and the -x order as columns-then-rows. This was
misleading at best, and the util-linux implementation was updated to
clarify the actual behaviour in 3e094e5fe2 (March 2017).

However, the other implementations (used by *BSD, macOS, Debian, &al.)
continue to use the previous wording, and a user comparing them could
easily get the false impression that util-linux column has exactly the
opposite fill behaviour from BSD column.

To address this, a note is added to the man page explaining the change
and clarifying that, despite what the BSD documentation says, the two
implementations behave identically in this regard.

Signed-off-by: dana <dana@dana.is>
2019-02-22 14:42:58 -06:00
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Makemodule.am build-sys: remove column-old.c 2017-05-03 10:40:46 +02:00
col.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
col.c col: improve error message, update regression test 2019-02-05 18:07:26 +01:00
colcrt.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
colcrt.c misc: consolidate macro style USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS 2017-06-29 16:54:33 +02:00
colrm.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
colrm.c misc: consolidate macro style USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS 2017-06-29 16:54:33 +02:00
column.1 column: Address fill-order confusion in documentation 2019-02-22 14:42:58 -06:00
column.c column: add --table-empty-lines 2018-08-23 13:34:43 +02:00
hexdump-conv.c hexdump: Rename struct _pr to struct hexdump_pr and remove it's typedef 2013-12-02 13:44:21 +01:00
hexdump-display.c misc: stop mixing declarations and code 2017-03-13 14:48:04 +01:00
hexdump-parse.c hexdump: fix potential null pointer dereference warnings 2018-12-10 21:48:00 +00:00
hexdump.1 man pages: Remove "left" (or change to "l") in the column formats of tables 2018-08-06 08:58:57 +02:00
hexdump.c misc: consolidate macro style USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS 2017-06-29 16:54:33 +02:00
hexdump.h misc: cosmetics, remove argument from usage(FILE*) 2017-06-26 14:38:24 +02:00
line.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
line.c misc: consolidate macro style USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS 2017-06-29 16:54:33 +02:00
more.1 more: add --help and --version 2017-06-22 21:35:01 +02:00
more.c more: rename functions 2018-09-02 18:30:12 +01:00
pg.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
pg.c text-utils: use errexec() 2018-02-01 15:40:43 +01:00
rev.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
rev.c rev: move a global variable to local scope 2018-05-28 13:36:38 +02:00
ul.1 docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLs 2016-12-19 11:22:26 +01:00
ul.c misc: consolidate macro style USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS 2017-06-29 16:54:33 +02:00