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: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:13 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405121549.i4CFnwAu004985@brains.moreideas.ca> <20040513193433.GD12256@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084574272 2072 80.91.224.253 (14 May 2004 22:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 00:37:39 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 1BOlJD-0002Gm-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 00:37:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOlJD-0001Uw-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 00:37:39 +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 1BOl2S-000089-N9 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 18:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOkqV-000679-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 18:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOkFi-0004TQ-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:30:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOjor-0004kg-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BOjor-00072u-9I; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:02:13 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <20040513193433.GD12256@fencepost> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 13 May 2004 15:34:33 -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:23439 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23439 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. To do this would require dired to realign all the lines whenever one line changes. This would be a nuisance in a number of ways. One file with a long group name could make all the file names cause line continuation.