bug#53033: date has multiple "first saturday"s?

Just a quick comment as a lurker on the list: This was a very interesting discussion, and it's discussions like these that I like following the list for. Learned a few little things here. Side note: Where I live in Canada, if someone refers to "next Saturday" in conversation, one never knows if

bug#25078: ls 8.26: discrepancy between `ls' and `ls -1' in the alignment of quoted and nonquoted items

The alignment change is helpful, but I do have an argument against doing the same in the -1 case: It breaks something many of us have done in scripts. Of course we *know* that ls -1 isn't the best way to go, but for quickie scripts it has been the standby for many. Also, I cannot come up with a

bug#24958: Please make "omitting directory" message clearer

I have had people I am teaching say the same thing, "Yeah, I know it's a directory!" +1 on the AIX style of message. It is clear, offers a (likely correct) suggestion, and is brief. Paul On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Paul Eggert, on Wed 16

bug#22698: ls output changes considered unacceptable

I understand the desire for this, and indeed copy-pasting from the output of ls has been a bit of a pain from time to time, but on the other hand, the output I now have (by default) from ls is more difficult to read. now when I type ls in a directory with a couple files with spaces in their names,

bug#22580: shell-escape in tty in ls

who thinks "it's been this way for decades!"), but if there is a good one, I'll say "Cool, thanks!". Cheers, Paul Vint pjv...@gmail.com