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Subject: [bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output.
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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 =E2=80=98cut=E2=80=99 looks to me both easier =
and simpler
than awk (since it=E2=80=99s a full language).

But anyway, as Danny write, if your patches retain tabs (in addition to
spaces), presumably it=E2=80=99s OK even for those of us who prefer =E2=80=
=98cut=E2=80=99,
right?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.