From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:51:01 +0200 Sender: bug-coreutils-bounces+gcgcb-bug-coreutils-616=gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <85y8j0z03e.fsf@pi.meyering.net> References: <414D38E0.4080300@math.ku.dk> <7w8yb6wty1.fsf@sic.twinsun.com> <7wr7oxzgs4.fsf@sic.twinsun.com> <20040920050006.GA7888@fencepost> <876566decg.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096005099 30458 80.91.229.6 (24 Sep 2004 05:51:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , bug-coreutils@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-coreutils-bounces+gcgcb-bug-coreutils-616=gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 24 07:51:28 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 1CAizP-0007We-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:51:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAj5S-0005At-Sc for gcgcb-bug-coreutils-616@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAj5P-0005AK-4i for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAj5N-00059a-C5 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAj5N-00059V-9b; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [82.230.74.64] (helo=mx.meyering.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CAiz9-0007AO-Co; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: by mx.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1002) id 689FE3F7D; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:51:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:45:31 -0400") Original-Lines: 11 X-BeenThere: bug-coreutils@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "GNU Core Utilities: bug reports and discussion" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-coreutils-bounces+gcgcb-bug-coreutils-616=gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs:2921 gmane.emacs.devel:27522 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27522 > I think a better solution is if we can turn off the new "feature" > of adapting the column widths to the data. It is simple and clean. > Both this and your suggestion would only work with GNU ls, so in that > regard neither one has an advantage. > > Meyering, what do you think? Ideally ls would accept a new --format=FMT option that would work like find's printf format string. Then it'd be easy to add a new option to make ls use a format string with fixed widths to restore the old behavior.