bug#21325: ls : feature request --width=zero

2015-10-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/10/15 03:55, Aaron Davies wrote: > On Aug 24, 2015, at 3:34 AM, f0rhum wrote: >> >> Le 23/08/2015 23:11, Stephane Chazelas a écrit : >> >>> 2015-08-23 13:26:35 +0200, Erik Auerswald: Hi, On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 08:58:01PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >

bug#21325: ls : feature request --width=zero

2015-10-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Pádraig Brady wrote: If a limit, then 0 naturally implies no limit. If a length, then 0 is meaningless. It's not meaningless. It means length 0. Length -1 would be meaningless. That being said, I'm tired of fighting this issue, so please feel free to go ahead and have 0 mean infinity to the

bug#21325: ls : feature request --width=zero

2015-10-20 Thread Aaron Davies
On Oct 20, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> If a limit, then 0 naturally implies no limit. If a length, then 0 is >> meaningless. > > It's not meaningless. It means length 0. Length -1 would be meaningless. I'm entirely indifferent between