Re: broken ls in coreutils 8.25

[Pádraig Brady]

On 13/02/16 05:02, Max wrote:
> Hi Padraig,
> 
> Could I suggest that with the new quoting style default for ls with
> terminal output, those files that are not quoted are indented by one
> space so that the actual names of each file start on the same column
> of text, with both long and short forms of output?
> 
> Consider
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 Wolfmother
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'World'\''s End Press'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 Yeasayer
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 YELLE
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 Yuksek
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'Zombie Nation'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 Zucchero
> 
> versus
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015  Wolfmother
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'World'\''s End Press'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015  Yeasayer
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015  YELLE
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015  Yuksek
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015 'Zombie Nation'
> drwxr-xr-x  3 max max 4.0K Jun 17  2015  Zucchero
> 
> where I feel the second is much more readable in a fixed width font.
> It also emphasises the fact that the quotes were added by ls as
> opposed to being part of the original filename.

I like that!
For the -l case this makes a lot of sense.

thanks,
Pádraig