From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Whaite Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired alignment Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:55:13 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200405071455.i47EtDm3003533@brains.moreideas.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083947496 20884 80.91.224.253 (7 May 2004 16:31:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:31:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 07 18:31:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BM8Fb-00056L-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 18:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BM8Fb-0003OS-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 18:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BM8EI-0000Nc-At for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 12:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BM6m4-0003dB-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 10:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BM6lN-0003PN-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 10:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.185.220.223] (helo=priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BM6lM-0003OU-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 10:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca ([142.169.183.82]) by priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040507145543.EXAX20501.priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net@brains.moreideas.ca> for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 08:55:43 -0600 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by brains.moreideas.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i47EtDPt003538 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 10:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca (peta@localhost) by brains.moreideas.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i47EtDm3003533 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 10:55:13 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Message from Stefan Monnier of "05 May 2004 17:12:41 EDT." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.3+cvs; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.3.50.48 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22907 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22907 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > That's a side effect of recent changes in coreutils. Columns in the > > output of ls are now expanded only to the extend needed to keep the whole > > output aligned, so when listing only one file the whitespace between > > columns will be minimal. > > > This is not good. Should I ask the coreutils developer to change this? > > I doubt you'll be able to convince him. It's a good feature: no fixed > predefined column sizes, it's all automatically adjusted. Shouldn't the --dired switch do the right thing? -- Peter Whaite (http://whaite.ca)