On 2010-03-09, Jean Johner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As written in netrw help, wide listing format is the most compact
> format for listing files.
> 
> However, we see easily that this format is far less compact than the
> one used by the ls unix command.
> 
> This feature is not comfortable since we remember the position of
> files by their position in the columns of the ls command. Columns look
> completly different with unix ls and netrw wide format (for the same
> terminal width of course).
> 
> It appears that the rule chosen by ls is the following:
> variable column width with exactly two spaces between colums.
> The rule chosen by netrw seems to be:
> fixed colum width calculated to be the longest file name + 3.
> 
> Is it (or would it be) possible to have the same rule (the ls one) in
> both environments.

For what it's worth, the output format of the ls command varies
among different Unix systems, so there is no one rule for ls.

Regards,
Gary

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