Re: align file name with find-dired

[Billy O'Connor]

Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2007-12-06@kanis.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am finally trying out find-dired. It looks neat except that filename
> are not aligned:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 0 2007-10-30 21:36 auto-save-list/saves-1471-zen~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 134 2007-11-30 03:07 auto-save-list/saves-5829-zen~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 88562 2007-11-29 22:07 !home!ivan!.ido.last~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivan ivan 384 2007-11-29 20:21 !home!ivan!.url!cookies~
>
> This is due to the size of file being of different width. I have tried
> to fix it by tweaking the find-ls-option variable.
>
> I searched the mailing list archive but found nothing.
>
> Any ideas?

I see what's happening, the find command is getting the output of one
"ls" command at a time via the "-exec" action.  the regular dired
doesn't have this problem, for it doesn't use that "one at a time"
method of listing the files, and, more importantly(I think) because
dired.el has a funtion called dired-align-file.  This file might be
useful to both dired.el and find-dired.el.

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Billy O'Connor