2009/3/15 Paul Eggert <[email protected]>: > Stéphane Raimbault <[email protected]> writes: > >> I propose to have a column for "%b %e" translation (left aligned) and >> another one for "%H:%M" and "%Y" (right aligned). > > Something like that should work, yes, but it'll require some hacking > in the ls.c code, as it will have 2 more columns to keep track of. >
I know, it isn't a trivial change. >> Another solution is to compute the max length of the column to align >> it (as done for username, size, etc) and not just only the first >> occurrence (but the visual result will be not as good). > > Sorry, I don't follow this point. Won't making the columns line up > make the output look better? Could you give examples? > If the column is left aligned the output will be like that: -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 15 mars 12:12 a -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 févr. 00:00 b -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 janv. 00:00 c -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 déc. 00:00 d -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 nov. 00:00 e -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 oct. 00:00 f -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 sept. 2008 g -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 août 2008 h -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 juil. 2008 i -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 juin 2008 j -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 mai 2008 k -rw-r--r-- 1 stephane stephane 0 1 avril 2008 l so hours and years aren't aligned. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
