Re: ls output changes considered unacceptable

[Pádraig Brady]

On 18/02/16 09:17, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 17/02/16 17:46, Michael Stone wrote:
>> [new quoting style is] ambiguous. It isn't possible to tell from the output
>> whether you're  looking at a really weird filename or something that's been 
>> escaped.
>> Recall the earlier point about the inability to configure a heterogenous 
>> environment consistently, and the lack of visual indication of the 
>> current QUOTING_STYLE.
> 
> I agree with this.
> An improvement suggested by someone else, would improve both the ambiguity
> and the small alignment issue, by adding an extra space to ls -l output
> if any names are quoted. That would also give a better indication that
> ls was adding the quotes. I.E.:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 padraig padraig    580 Dec 14 04:01  blah_blah
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 padraig padraig    580 Dec 14 04:01 'blah blah'

Attached is a patch to implement the above alignment tweaks.

cheers,
Pádraig

ls-quote-align.patch
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