From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired alignment Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 17:59:51 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405071455.i47EtDm3003533@brains.moreideas.ca> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084053905 6306 80.91.224.253 (8 May 2004 22:05:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 22:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 00:04:59 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 1BMZwJ-0004tN-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 00:04:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMZwJ-0006Af-01 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 00:04:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZvK-0003ei-Im for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZt1-0002xI-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZrv-0001an-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZrL-0000gw-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 17:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZrL-00015O-17; Sat, 08 May 2004 17:59:51 -0400 Original-To: Peter Whaite In-reply-to: <200405071455.i47EtDm3003533@brains.moreideas.ca> (message from Peter Whaite on Fri, 07 May 2004 10:55:13 -0400) 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:22944 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22944 > 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? Do you mean, using --dired should force the old-style alignment? That might be a good partial solution. However, we will still have problems with non-GNU versions of ls, so we might want to make Dired fix the alignment when it doesn't use --dired.