From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bug-coreutils@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:34:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buod608tme5.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CAzga-0008GF-IH@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:41:08 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It maybe a bit less work, but it's certainly not "better" -- without the
> auto-adjustment feature, it "simply" would use absurdly large amounts of
> whitespace _just in case_ a file happens to be hundreds of gigabytes in size
> and have thousands of links.
>
> If ls does what ls used to do, it won't be worse than it was.
Actually I think it's been getting worse recently because of the advent
of large file systems, etc -- you can no longer assume that 8 or 9
characters is enough for the file's size.
Morever, it was never that good: the excess whitespace caused annoyance
for me even in the old days. The new flexibility of ls is generally a
_win_ from a user's point of view, it's only slightly unusual
applications of it such as emacs' dired updating-after-rename in which
it's not. I like dired, and I'd like it to be as user-friendly as
possible.
However, the argument seems moot, as Stefan's patch would appear to
solve the problem. Yay! Thanks Stefan...
-Miles
--
((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x)))
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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 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan
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 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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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