From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired alignment Date: 05 May 2004 17:12:41 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083793118 24146 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 21:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 23:38:34 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 1BLU65-0005VA-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:38:33 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLU65-0004jw-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:38:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTtX-0004Xn-4h for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLThw-0001MG-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLThM-0001Au-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTh4-00012p-Kd; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6136121145; Wed, 5 May 2004 17:12:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 330B78C6AE; Wed, 5 May 2004 17:12:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.524, requis 5, BAYES_01 -1.52) 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:22821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22821 > That's a side effect of recent changes in coreutils. Columns in the > output of ls are now expanded only to the extend needed to keep the whole > output aligned, so when listing only one file the whitespace between > columns will be minimal. > This is not good. Should I ask the coreutils developer to change this? I doubt you'll be able to convince him. It's a good feature: no fixed predefined column sizes, it's all automatically adjusted. > Should Emacs try to align the indentation as it comes in? Looks that way, :-( Stefan