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From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bug-coreutils@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:20:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1u0tnsz5w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CAzfs-0008Ah-TU@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:24 -0400")

>     Another solution is to assume that the current buffer and the one new
>     line have used the same ls options and contain the same number of
>     space-separated fields.  Based on this, you can add spaces so as to
>     align the fields in the new line to the field of the other lines.

> That would be rather unreliable, since it would need to figure out the
> number of spaces between fields in both the new output and the old
> buffer.  The gains that we got from --dired would be lost.
> I won't accept this approach.

Of course, the filename part would be determined just as it is now (using
the --dired data if available, for example).


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-25  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-19  7:44 dired-move-to-filename-regexp Lars Hansen
2004-09-19  8:20 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-20  0:05   ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-20  4:49     ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-20  5:00       ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Miles Bader
2004-09-21 18:30         ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-22  6:09           ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-23 16:45             ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 17:57               ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan Monnier
2004-09-24 23:40                 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-25  5:20                   ` Stefan [this message]
2004-09-25 15:36                     ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-25 19:08                       ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan
2004-09-26 18:19                         ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-29  3:17                           ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan
2004-09-23 18:27               ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-24 23:40                 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 23:27               ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Miles Bader
2004-09-24 23:41                 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-27  3:34                   ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Miles Bader
2004-09-24  5:51               ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Jim Meyering
2004-09-25  7:08                 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-21 18:30       ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 18:59     ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Lars Hansen
2004-09-24 23:40       ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-20  6:11   ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Lars Hansen
2004-09-20 23:28     ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert

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