coreutils: ls rows shoved over on whole line

coreutils: ls rows shoved over on whole line

[Dan Jacobson]

Package: coreutils
Version: 4.5.2-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/ls
Tags: upstream

on ls -l listings,
Shall the 1170 mess up the whole line's alignment, or, should we limit the damage?
  /usr/share/doc/emacs-goodies-el:
  used 72 available 447620
  drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2002-12-07 15:40 .
  drwxr-xr-x  1170 root     root        28672 2003-01-11 05:29 ..
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4143 2002-09-13 16:24 README.Debian.gz
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2287 2002-10-09 19:55 changelog.Debian.gz
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        25002 2002-09-13 16:21 copyright

also, should emacs' dired so something about it if ls won't?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

Re: coreutils: ls rows shoved over on whole line

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> also, should emacs' dired so something about it if ls won't?

Does (require 'ls-lisp) help?

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Re: coreutils: ls rows shoved over on whole line

[Dan Jacobson]

K> Does (require 'ls-lisp) help?

No, whole line still affected by the 1171 to the very end
<   used 72 available 447436
<   drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec  7 15:40 .
<   drwxr-xr-x  1171 root     root        28672 Jan 17 12:48 ..
<   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4143 Sep 13 16:24 README.Debian.gz
<   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2287 Oct  9 19:55 changelog.Debian.gz
<   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        25002 Sep 13 16:21 copyright
---
>   total 63  free 447436
>   drwxr-xr-x   2 0        root         4096 Dec  7 15:40 .
>   drwxr-xr-x 1171 0        root        28672 Jan 17 12:48 ..
>   -rw-r--r--   1 0        root         4143 Sep 13 16:24 README.Debian.gz
>   -rw-r--r--   1 0        root         2287 Oct  9 19:55 changelog.Debian.gz
>   -rw-r--r--   1 0        root        25002 Sep 13 16:21 copyright
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