GNU bug report logs - #6176
[PATCH 1/2] sort: add a --debug option to highlight key extents

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 6176-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 6176-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6176: [PATCH 1/2] sort: add a --debug option to highlight key
	extents
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:08:35 +0200
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> The attached patch allows one to:
>
> $ printf "one 2 3e3e" | .sort --debug -k3,3g -k2,2
> one 2 3e3e
>       ___
>    __
> __________

Nice.  Thanks for writing all of that.
These changes are sure to be useful.

I have merely glanced through them (look fine so far),
but would not mind at all if you were to push the series as-is.

Jim

PS: I've gone ahead and marked this as "done".




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