Re: dired alignment

[Edward O'Connor]

>> That's a side effect of recent changes in coreutils. Columns in the
>> output of ls are now expanded only to the extend needed to keep the
>> whole output aligned, so when listing only one file the whitespace
>> between columns will be minimal.

Note that FreeBSD's ls has had this behavior for a long time. Enhancing
Dired to better support GNU ls will have the added benefit of improving
Dired's behavior on other systems as well.


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