From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs Subject: Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:08:42 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: 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> <85y8j0z03e.fsf@pi.meyering.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096096215 12431 80.91.229.6 (25 Sep 2004 07:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bug-coreutils@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 25 09:10:09 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 1CB6h7-0007NW-00 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:10:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CB6nE-0001St-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CB6mF-0000sW-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CB6mA-0000qi-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CB6lt-0000gx-UW; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CB6fj-0008MJ-0y; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CB6fi-0004NZ-Fv; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:08:42 -0400 Original-To: Jim Meyering In-reply-to: <85y8j0z03e.fsf@pi.meyering.net> (message from Jim Meyering on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:51:01 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27557 gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs:2933 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27557 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. Would you like to implement that? If that's the solution you prefer, it will certainly work.