From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired alignment Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:43:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405121549.i4CFnwAu004985@brains.moreideas.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084467840 4943 80.91.224.253 (13 May 2004 17:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 13 19:03:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOJcJ-0006yT-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 19:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOJcJ-0002Th-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 19:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOJVX-0003wR-Mt for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 12:56:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOJRv-0003Wi-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 12:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOJQj-0002oY-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 12:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BOJJi-0000bg-Rc; Thu, 13 May 2004 12:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFD85A446D; Thu, 13 May 2004 18:43:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: All of life is a blur of Republicans and meat! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 13 May 2004 11:46:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23330 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23330 Richard Stallman writes: > Note that the problem is more general than that. If a group has a = very > long name or a file is very large, alignment is lost in the output = of old > GNU ls whereas it is preserved in the new. > I.e. the new alignment in GNU ls breaks alignment betwen different > invocations of `ls' but fixes alignment within a single invocation = of `ls'. > And you can't have it both ways. > > That's correct. What we want in Dired is the old behavior: > align ordinary lines the same way, and treat peculiar lines > specially. IMHO it would be a step backwards if Dired would force unaligned output. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."