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Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:34:58 +0900 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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)))
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, (continued)
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/24
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Stefan, 2004/09/25
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/25
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Stefan, 2004/09/25
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/26
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Stefan, 2004/09/28
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Paul Eggert, 2004/09/23
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/24
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Miles Bader, 2004/09/23
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/24
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Jim Meyering, 2004/09/24
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/25
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/21
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Lars Hansen, 2004/09/23
- Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/24
Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp, Lars Hansen, 2004/09/20