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Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix
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Dmitry V. Levin |
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Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:34:34 +0300 |
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:43:59PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Emacs can use --dired now, so this should not be an issue.
>
> OK, thanks. I just now checked, and if I understand it aright this
> started happening with Emacs 21.3 (released March 2003).
>
> Can we safely assume that everyone in non-POSIX locales with oddball
> time stamp formats and who wants to use recent coreutils is also using
> Emacs 21.3 or later? It sounds a bit risky, but perhaps it would be
> OK. (After the next coreutils release, that is.)
>
> If we can assume Emacs works, then that removes the last major worry I
> had about 'locale' time stamp format being the default. To
> recapitulate the worries, this was:
>
> * Poorly configured hosts would generate English time stamps in
> non-English locales (this would be fixed by having
> --time-stamp='locale' default to long-iso formats in such locales
> -- a fix that is not done yet).
>
> * Time stamps were not all the same width, leading to jagged
> columns. (Fixed in GNU/Linux by having the locales done right;
> other hosts like Solaris will just have jagged columns, I guess.
> If this turns into a real problem we can have ls autoadjust the
> widths as it already does for several other columns.)
>
> * Emacs got confused.
>
>
> Mike, what do you think about the following patch for Gentoo, in place
> of what Gentoo is doing currently? It implements the suggestion I
> have in mind. This is not installed in coreutils: it's just a
> proposal.
Please do not forget to apply this patch, at least to development branch.
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