Re: right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake.

[Paul Eggert]

Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> writes:

> I think there's no justification (pun intended) for the current
> right-justification of uid's/gid's -- it really looks ugly.

In some cases it looks better, in some cases it looks worse.
Here's an example where it looks better:

   $ old-ls -l a b c
   -rw-r--r--    1 99       109             0 Apr 15 00:20 a
   -rw-r--r--    1 1000000  9999999         0 Apr 15 00:20 b
   -rw-r--r--    1 99999999 10000000        0 Apr 15 00:20 c
   $ new-ls -l a b c
   -rw-r--r--  1       99      109 0 Apr 15 00:20 a
   -rw-r--r--  1  1000000  9999999 0 Apr 15 00:20 b
   -rw-r--r--  1 99999999 10000000 0 Apr 15 00:20 c

as integers are usually printed right-adjusted, not left-adjusted.

I agree that your example looks a bit outre, but then the data were
pretty outre too.

One possible change would be to right-adjust the numbers, but to have
their right margin be at a minimal location.  That would cause the
output to have the "clean formatting" that you suggested, while still
preserving the right-adjustedness of numbers in the example above.