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RE: [h-e-w] dired formating inconsistent
From: |
Dr Francis J. Wright |
Subject: |
RE: [h-e-w] dired formating inconsistent |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:33:14 +0100 |
> From:
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> rg] On Behalf Of Jason Rumney
> Sent: Saturday, 2 October 2004 11:43 am
> To: Sarir Khamsi
> Cc: ntemacs
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] dired formating inconsistent
>
> Sarir Khamsi <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > After using Emacs 21.3.50.1 for a bit, I've noticed that
> the output of
> > dired does not seem to be consistent: sometimes the listing of the
> > filenames does not align correctly. Unfortunately, I can't seem to
> > determine what conditions cause this (eg. certain directories,
> > filenames, phase of the moon, etc). Has anyone seen this and have a
> > solution? Thanks.
>
> The problem is the version of ls you are using. A recent
> version of GNU ls was changed to vary the column widths based
> on the length of filenames being listed, instead of having
> fixed columns. Because Emacs updates the dired buffer with
> partial directory listings after some operations, the column
> widths can get out of step with such a version of ls. We have
> asked the ls developers to give us some way to get fixed
> width columns, but I do not know what happened to that.
Alternatively, ls-lisp should work, unless something has been changed
dramatically since I last looked at it. Moreover, I assume it's still the
default if Emacs is built as a native Windows application. Do you need some
functionality that ls-lisp doesn't provide?
Francis