From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired alignment Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:34:33 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040513193433.GD12256@fencepost> References: <200405121549.i4CFnwAu004985@brains.moreideas.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084477715 29902 80.91.224.253 (13 May 2004 19:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 13 21:48:24 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 1BOMBs-0002St-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 21:48:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOMBs-00073c-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 21:48:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOM0U-0004eK-S3 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOLzH-0004PT-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOLya-0003BU-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOLyZ-00039j-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BOLyT-0003s6-5l; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:34:33 -0400 Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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:23345 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23345 On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:46:01AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > That's correct. What we want in Dired is the old behavior: > align ordinary lines the same way, and treat peculiar lines > specially. Actually, if it could be handled correctly, I'd rather like the new behavior in dired too (I use direct much more often than I use plain ls) -- it's annoying when columns take up much more room than they actually need. -Miles -- Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen