From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs Subject: Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:20:58 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096089689 3073 80.91.229.6 (25 Sep 2004 05:21:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:21:29 +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 07:21:18 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 1CB4zl-0004xA-00 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:21:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CB55s-0006CK-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CB55l-0006By-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CB55l-0006Bk-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CB55i-0006Ad-Gd; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.141] (helo=simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CB4zU-0006D9-Ax; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([67.70.165.30]) by simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20040925051947.SBDY1580.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id 10ADD302C43; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:20:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) 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:27555 gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs:2931 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27555 > 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