align file name with find-dired

align file name with find-dired

[Ivan Kanis]

Hello,

I am finally trying out find-dired. It looks neat except that filename
are not aligned:

-rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 0 2007-10-30 21:36 auto-save-list/saves-1471-zen~
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 134 2007-11-30 03:07 auto-save-list/saves-5829-zen~
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 88562 2007-11-29 22:07 !home!ivan!.ido.last~
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 384 2007-11-29 20:21 !home!ivan!.url!cookies~

This is due to the size of file being of different width. I have tried
to fix it by tweaking the find-ls-option variable.

I searched the mailing list archive but found nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-- 
Ivan
http://kanis.fr

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
    -- Emily Dickinson

Re: align file name with find-dired

[Billy O'Connor]

Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2007-12-06@kanis.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am finally trying out find-dired. It looks neat except that filename
> are not aligned:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 0 2007-10-30 21:36 auto-save-list/saves-1471-zen~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 134 2007-11-30 03:07 auto-save-list/saves-5829-zen~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 88562 2007-11-29 22:07 !home!ivan!.ido.last~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 384 2007-11-29 20:21 !home!ivan!.url!cookies~
>
> This is due to the size of file being of different width. I have tried
> to fix it by tweaking the find-ls-option variable.
>
> I searched the mailing list archive but found nothing.
>
> Any ideas?

I see what's happening, the find command is getting the output of one
"ls" command at a time via the "-exec" action.  the regular dired
doesn't have this problem, for it doesn't use that "one at a time"
method of listing the files, and, more importantly(I think) because
dired.el has a funtion called dired-align-file.  This file might be
useful to both dired.el and find-dired.el.

--
Billy O'Connor

Re: align file name with find-dired

[Ivan Kanis]

Billy O'Connor <billyoc@gmail.com> writes:

> Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2007-12-06@kanis.fr> writes:
>
>> I am finally trying out find-dired. It looks neat except that filename
>> are not aligned:
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 0 2007-10-30 21:36 auto-save-list/saves-1471-zen~
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 134 2007-11-30 03:07 auto-save-list/saves-5829-zen~
>
> I see what's happening, the find command is getting the output of one
> "ls" command at a time via the "-exec" action.  the regular dired
> doesn't have this problem, for it doesn't use that "one at a time"
> method of listing the files

I could not find an option in ls to format the size of the file so
that it would line up. 

Maybe a better way would be to use find to list directories and then
execute ls on each directories.
-- 
Ivan
http://kanis.fr

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than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which
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