Pádraig Brady d454017b5d fold: restrict whole character backspace to -c ...

With POSIX (and the LI18NUX2000 patch) backspaces back up by 1 column.
This matches terminal output.  Note less(1) and thus grotty(1)
use per character backup accounting for their legacy bold/underline
markup format, so we'll keep --characters to enable that mode if needed.
This also avoids the issue of multiple backspaces
using the width of a single previous character.

* src/fold.c (adjust_column): Without -c,
have backspace back up by 1 column.
* doc/coreutils.texi (fold invocation): Mention that --characters
does per character width backspace accounting.
* tests/fold/fold-characters.sh: Add/Adjust test cases.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

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.gitignore

maint: add files generated by 'make ps' to .gitignore

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coreutils.texi

fold: restrict whole character backspace to -c

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fdl.texi

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

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local.mk

build: propagate $SHELL to makeinfo-wrapper.sh

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perm.texi

maint: run 'make update-copyright'

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sort-version.texi

maint: run 'make update-copyright'

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