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Bug 235946 - column(1): Fill order (with/without -x) is incorrectly documented
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Authored by bcr on Oct 6 2023, 1:56 PM.
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Taken from the PR PR 235946, a comment in column.c says:

+/*
+ * Note that c_columnate() and r_columnate() are misleadingly named: the former
+ * fills *rows* first and the latter fills *columns* first. The original names
+ * are kept here only for historical reasons.
+ */

The patch fixes this.

Note: I'm not sure whether we need the CAVEATS section addition, but maybe because of the historic reasons mentioned above, it would make sense.

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  1. Apply the patch to usr.sbin/column/column.1
  2. Check the output
  3. Comment or approve

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