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Re: right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake. |
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Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:32:56 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> writes:
> I think there's no justification (pun intended) for the current
> right-justification of uid's/gid's -- it really looks ugly.
In some cases it looks better, in some cases it looks worse.
Here's an example where it looks better:
$ old-ls -l a b c
-rw-r--r-- 1 99 109 0 Apr 15 00:20 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000000 9999999 0 Apr 15 00:20 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 99999999 10000000 0 Apr 15 00:20 c
$ new-ls -l a b c
-rw-r--r-- 1 99 109 0 Apr 15 00:20 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000000 9999999 0 Apr 15 00:20 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 99999999 10000000 0 Apr 15 00:20 c
as integers are usually printed right-adjusted, not left-adjusted.
I agree that your example looks a bit outre, but then the data were
pretty outre too.
One possible change would be to right-adjust the numbers, but to have
their right margin be at a minimal location. That would cause the
output to have the "clean formatting" that you suggested, while still
preserving the right-adjustedness of numbers in the example above.