From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: dired: blanks wasted at the beginning of each line Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:11:29 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <876570xzqm.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093897398 25976 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 20:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 22:23:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C1sgB-0006kq-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:23:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sl1-0007X4-AV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sl0-0007Wz-IO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sky-0007Wm-Pi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sky-0007Wj-N0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.79.224.62] (helo=smtp1.apol.com.tw) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1sfs-00074I-UK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from jidanni1 (TC218-187-78-92.2-4.dynamic.apol.com.tw [218.187.78.92]) by smtp1.apol.com.tw (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA4853970 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:22:13 +0800 (CST) Original-Received: from jidanni by jidanni1 with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C1qcr-0000pP-UT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:11:30 +0800 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:8870 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8870 $ emacs . Boy you guys sure got hectares of terminal space to waste two whole blanks at the beginning of each line, with no variable to control the madness. Err, wait. I forgot about marks. Let's try again. Boy you guys sure got hectares of terminal space to waste one whole blank after marks, with no variable to control the madness. And what about all those blanks for the links column... the user perhaps could be given a variable to say how many to use. If one day a file really had loads of links, then a column would look shifted, no big deal. I started noticing all this waste when I went back to using 80 column screens so I know how the 'little guy' feels so I won't make any more too wide messages.