[bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Steve Sprang <steve.sprang@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 5:28 AM, Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> wrote:
>> If we use GNU awk instead of cut, I think any whitespace will work:
>>   $ guix package -A | awk '{ print $1 "@" $2 }'
>>
>> And then we can optimize the output reading experience for our users
>> instead of for the 'cut' program.
>
> I like this proposal, unless there is a strong reason to prefer 'cut'?

Again a matter of taste, but ‘cut’ looks to me both easier and simpler
than awk (since it’s a full language).

But anyway, as Danny write, if your patches retain tabs (in addition to
spaces), presumably it’s OK even for those of us who prefer ‘cut’,
right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.