On 28/03/17 05:16, Karel Zak wrote: > > Hi, > > see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436432 > > any idea what is the right col(1) behavior for escape sequences? > > The current code reads two first bytes from the sequence and the rest > is interpreted as standard chars (because complex sequences like > ^[..m are completely unknown for the code), for example input: > > ^[[1mtomcat-el^[(B^[[m > > produces: > > 1mtomcat-elBm > > It seems incorrect. I think for "col -p" all the sequence should be > filtered out, it means: > > tomcat-el > > and the default behavior (without -p) should be output all escape > sequences but do not increment internal width counters. > > Objections? > > Karel > I agree, but presuming you meant the opposite, and for `col -p` to pass through all these escape sequences unaltered -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
