Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think a better solution is if we can turn off the new "feature" > of adapting the column widths to the data.
One way would be to extend --format to allow fairly arbitrary formats that can specify column widths. For example, Emacs could do this: ls --format='%11m %2l %8o %8g %7s %12d %f' to have "ls" list the mode, link, owner, group, size, date, and file name in the traditional widths for "ls -l". This would resemble the way "ls --time-style" already handles date formats. Another possibility is to have a new option to disable the new feature, e.g. "ls --traditional-column-widths". This would be a bit easier to implement, but would be less general and might have problems of its own (e.g., users and implementations don't agree on what the traditional widths are). I understand that some non-GNU ls implementations also adapt column widths to data, so the Emacs problem would remain with these implementations, regardless of how we change GNU ls. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
