Making a test suite for uniq.

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Wed Sep 14 19:05:31 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:48:18PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 10:48, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> > > P.S. Yeah, I get a bit pedantic when I'm claiming compliance with an
> > > official formal specification.  But currently, we're wrong.
> >
> > Fine with me.  I'll incorporate those changes.  I'll also add an option
> > to the config system to toggle gnu-ish leading whitespace if you like.
> 
> I don't care strongly either way, but I lean towards fewer config options.  

I'm the opposite.  I prefer things to be as configurable as reasonable,
and generally gnuish vs susv3 behavior is worth a config option in my
opinion.

> The reason for the leading space is to line up the numbers no matter how long 
> they are, which is a purely cosmetic detail.

Stating the obvious.  ;-)

Manuel



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