dired alignment hacks

dired alignment hacks

[Miles Bader]

BTW, Stefan, your dired alignment hacks have worked flawlessly so far
... it's a great relief to use dired without constantly having to
refresh the display!

Thanks,

-Miles
-- 
Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to
have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than
nine score degrees, should he so wish.  [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Stefan]

> BTW, Stefan, your dired alignment hacks have worked flawlessly so far
> ... it's a great relief to use dired without constantly having to
> refresh the display!

Glad to hear it, thanks,


        Stefan "who hasn't used dired since"

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Lars Hansen]

Miles Bader wrote:

> BTW, Stefan, your dired alignment hacks have worked flawlessly so far
> ... it's a great relief to use dired without constantly having to
> refresh the display!

I am afraid the hack have made things worse for users of ls-lisp.
I havent had time to find out how to fix it, though.

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Stefan Monnier]

>> BTW, Stefan, your dired alignment hacks have worked flawlessly so far
>> ... it's a great relief to use dired without constantly having to
>> refresh the display!

> I am afraid the hack have made things worse for users of ls-lisp.
> I havent had time to find out how to fix it, though.

If you keep your bug report secret it's difficult for us to help.


        Stefan

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Lars Hansen]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>>If you keep your bug report secret it's difficult for us to help.
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't keep it a secret: Here it is!
>>    
>>
>
>I didn't see anything.  You probably just forgot to include it.
>Could you send it again?
>  
>
What I meant was: The previous mail was mean to be a bug report.
But now I see that you need more information. I can't reproduce the bug with
   emacs --no-init-file --load=ls-lisp
So something in my .emacs file is causing the trouble. I will get back 
when I have found out what.

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Lars Hansen]

Lars Hansen wrote:

> But now I see that you need more information. I can't reproduce the 
> bug with
>   emacs --no-init-file --load=ls-lisp
> So something in my .emacs file is causing the trouble. I will get back 
> when I have found out what.

I just forgot ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program. So here is a 
description on how to reproduce the problem:

Start Emacs like

   emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file --load=ls-lisp \
   --eval=(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil) ~/test


Then the dired buffer will contain something like

  /home/lh/test:
  total used in directory 9 available 3995032
  drwxrwxr-x   2 lh       lh           4096 Nov 15 08:34 .
  drwxr-xr-x  34 lh       lh           4096 Nov 15 08:33 ..
  -rw-rw-r--   1 lh       lh              9 Nov 15 08:34 foo

Place point on foo and do C bar <RET>. Then the dired buffer will contain

  /home/lh/test:
  total used in directory 9 available 3995032
  drwxrwxr-x   2 lh       lh           4096 Nov 15 08:34 .
  drwxr-xr-x  34 lh       lh           4096 Nov 15 08:33 ..
C -rw-rw-r--     1 lh       lh              9 Nov 15 08:34 bar
  -rw-rw-r--   1 lh       lh              9 Nov 15 08:34 foo

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Stefan Monnier]

>    emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file --load=ls-lisp \
>    --eval=(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil) ~/test

OK, I believe I've fixed this bug now.  Thank you,


        Stefan

Re: dired alignment hacks

[Lars Hansen]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>OK, I believe I've fixed this bug now.  Thank you,
>  
>
I works! :-)