> Another solution is to assume that the current buffer and the one new
> line have used the same ls options and contain the same number of
> space-separated fields. Based on this, you can add spaces so as to
> align the fields in the new line to the field of the other lines.
> That would be rather unreliable, since it would need to figure out the
> number of spaces between fields in both the new output and the old
> buffer. The gains that we got from --dired would be lost.
> I won't accept this approach.
Of course, the filename part would be determined just as it is now (using
the --dired data if available, for example).
Stefan
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