Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

Another solution is to assume that the current buffer and the one new line
have used the same ls options and contain the same number of space-separated
fields.  Based on this, you can add spaces so as to align the fields in the
new line to the field of the other lines.


        Stefan