bug#16179: 24.3.50; darwin: ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program=nil => bad formatting

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:57:53 -0500
>>
>> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.00)
>>  of 2013-12-17 on sds-MacBook-Pro.local
>> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1265
>> Configured using:
>>  `configure --with-ns'
>>
>> (require 'ls-lisp)
>> (setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil)
>
> Not sure why you did that: the second line effectively disables the
> first one.  Is ls-lisp dumped into the Emacs executable on Darwin?  If
> not, why did you need the above?

these settings appear to be recommended by the doc string of
`dired-use-ls-dired'

>> results in a dired buffer where the colums are not aligned because the
>> file size between group and data does not have a fixed width
>
> This is obviously data-dependent, so please show the data and the
> screenshot of bad display.

here you go.

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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org> <http://www.childpsy.net/>

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