Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> This is certainly not a major bug in Dirvish, but it's somewhat... you 
> know :-)
> 
> When Dirvish makes a report and sends it via mail to me, the columns 
> aren't straight, i. e. the number of whitespaces in the head of the 
> "table" doesn't correspond to the number of signs produced in the lines 
> underneath.

Dirvish does try to align the columns but your VAULT:BRANCH names are
longer than it expects, as are mine :(

If you care then you could modify dirvish-expire to expect longer names.
Look at lines 144 and 166 where it shows "%-15s %-15s %-16.16s  %s\n".
Change the first 15 to something larger (18 would be sufficient for the
example you showed, I believe).

Of course it would be better if there were just a single format string
shared between the two lines and some kind of automatic scheme would be
even better, but then there are other possibilities as well. How about
tabs as separators, or formatting the report in XML :)

Another possibility, if you don't want to change dirvish-expire, is to
post-process the output with a little script.

Cheers, Dave
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