On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:32:56AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > 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 with you here, but then again these are all numeric. > 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. I'm not sure I follow you here -- what format string would that be in C? Anyway, I saw some talk the other day about having a --format option for 'ls' and others. I don't know if that idea is gonna fly, but I wouldn't be against it -- would enable you to please 100% of the people 100% of the time. -BJ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
