Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp

[Jim Meyering]

> I think a better solution is if we can turn off the new "feature"
> of adapting the column widths to the data.  It is simple and clean.
> Both this and your suggestion would only work with GNU ls, so in that
> regard neither one has an advantage.
>
> Meyering, what do you think?

Ideally ls would accept a new --format=FMT option that would
work like find's printf format string.  Then it'd be easy to
add a new option to make ls use a format string with fixed
widths to restore the old behavior.