Re: Briefly document whitespace handling in sort

[The Wanderer]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> The Wanderer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I was tripped up by the fact that it is not indicated anywhere in
> > the provided documentation that the character count of a field, for
> > the '-k' option, is counted from the beginning of the preceding
> > whitespace. The attached patch adds to the usage message a somewhat
> > terse note explaining the situation.
> >
> > If there's anything wrong with or otherwise objectionable about
> > this, don't hesitate to let me know; I'll either fix it if I can or
> > attempt to explain why I don't think it's a problem.
>
> Thanks.
> I've applied it.
> A ChangeLog entry would have been nice.

Sorry about that - the project I spend most of my open-source-related
time on does not keep a per-commit Changelog, so the thought didn't
occur to me.

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