bug#17219: 24.3.50; wrong alignment when a list is given to dired

bug#17219: 24.3.50; wrong alignment when a list is given to dired

[Nicolas Richard]

Steps to reproduce :

emacs -Q
M-: (dired (list "Something" "/" "~/"))

this gives, on my system:
: /home/youngfrog/mesnotes/lisp:
: drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 mar 15 20:53 /
: drwxr-xr-x 128 youngfrog youngfrog 12288 avr  7 18:23 /home/youngfrog/

which is not properly aligned.

OTOH, doing
M-: (dired (list "Something" "~/" "/" "/usr" ))

gives:
: drwxr-xr-x 128 youngfrog youngfrog 12288 avr  7 18:23 /home/youngfrog/
: drwxr-xr-x  22 root      root       4096 mar 15 20:53 /
: drwxr-xr-x  10 root      root       4096 nov  9  2012 /usr

which is ok wrt alignment.

It's dired-align-file that apparently can not do its work in the first
situation. Not sure if this can be fixed easily. From the comments, the
condition (> other-col file-col) seems important in the current
implementation.

Opinions ?

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.20)
 of 2014-01-30 on LDLC-portable
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11405000
System Description:	Ubuntu 13.10

Configured using:
 `configure 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: fr_BE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

-- 
Nico.

bug#17219: 24.3.50; wrong alignment when a list is given to dired

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Steps to reproduce :
>
> emacs -Q
> M-: (dired (list "Something" "/" "~/"))
>
> this gives, on my system:
> : /home/youngfrog/mesnotes/lisp:
> : drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 mar 15 20:53 /
> : drwxr-xr-x 128 youngfrog youngfrog 12288 avr  7 18:23 /home/youngfrog/
>
> which is not properly aligned.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
responses yet.)

I tried this in Emacs 27, and I was unable to reproduce the problem.
Are you still seeing this?

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bug#17219: 24.3.50; wrong alignment when a list is given to dired

[Nicolas Richard via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

On 15/08/19 02:03, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
>> Steps to reproduce :
>>
>> emacs -Q
>> M-: (dired (list "Something" "/" "~/"))
>>
>> this gives, on my system:
>> : /home/youngfrog/mesnotes/lisp:
>> : drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 mar 15 20:53 /
>> : drwxr-xr-x 128 youngfrog youngfrog 12288 avr  7 18:23 /home/youngfrog/
>>
>> which is not properly aligned.
> 
> (I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
> responses yet.)
> 
> I tried this in Emacs 27, and I was unable to reproduce the problem.
> Are you still seeing this?

Hi Lars,

Thanks for your patience. I still misalignement if I hit 'g'
(revert-buffer) afterwards.

I can be more precise if you wish.

Nicolas.

bug#17219: 24.3.50; wrong alignment when a list is given to dired

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:18:51 +0200
> Cc: 17219@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Nicolas Richard via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> On 15/08/19 02:03, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> >> Steps to reproduce :
> >>
> >> emacs -Q
> >> M-: (dired (list "Something" "/" "~/"))
> >>
> >> this gives, on my system:
> >> : /home/youngfrog/mesnotes/lisp:
> >> : drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 mar 15 20:53 /
> >> : drwxr-xr-x 128 youngfrog youngfrog 12288 avr  7 18:23 /home/youngfrog/
> >>
> >> which is not properly aligned.
> > 
> > (I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
> > responses yet.)
> > 
> > I tried this in Emacs 27, and I was unable to reproduce the problem.
> > Are you still seeing this?
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> Thanks for your patience. I still misalignement if I hit 'g'
> (revert-buffer) afterwards.

I guess it's because there are only 2 lines in the resulting buffer or
something.

bug#17219: 24.3.50; wrong alignment when a list is given to dired

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

>>> M-: (dired (list "Something" "/" "~/"))

[...]

> Thanks for your patience. I still misalignement if I hit 'g'
> (revert-buffer) afterwards.

Ah, yes, with `g' I get the misalignment, too.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I guess it's because there are only 2 lines in the resulting buffer or
> something.

I get the same problem with three lines.

(dired (list "Something" "/" "~/" "/tmp"))
=>

  /home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/progmodes:
  drwxr-xr-x 26 root root   4.0K Sep 17 13:43 /
  drwxr-xr-x 78 larsi larsi 4.0K Sep 20 14:32 /home/larsi/
  drwxrwxrwt 27 root  root   36K Sep 20 14:41 /tmp

and then `g'

  /home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/progmodes:
  drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4.0K Sep 17 13:43 /
  drwxr-xr-x 78 larsi larsi 4.0K Sep 20 14:32 /home/larsi/
  drwxrwxrwt 27 root  root   36K Sep 20 14:41 /tmp

It seems like the first line always loses the two extra spaces after
"root root".  Or...  experimenting with the order

  /home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk:
  drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4.0K Sep 17 13:43 /
  drwxrwxrwt 27 root root  36K Sep 20 14:41 /tmp
  drwxr-xr-x 78 larsi larsi 4.0K Sep 20 14:32 /home/larsi/

If the "root" lines are both first, then both lose the alignment.

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