Re: mistake in sort -k argument processing?

[Jim Meyering]

Evan Hunt <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Just like you can ignore a .1 in the start spec.  But you can't ignore a
>> .0 in a start spec, because it is wrong.  You can't denote the _end_ of
>> the start field.
>
> Very well.  In that case, let's edit the documentation to reflect that .0
> represents the end of the field, and I'll be happy.

I would welcome a patch (to coreutils.texi) to do that.