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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | bug#57946: closed (ls indenting broken if executed without color flag after i set tabs to 4) |
Date: | Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:22:03 +0000 |
Your message dated Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:21:23 -0700 with message-id <1ed8b2f9-1497-d95f-bb73-7ba087bc3820@cs.ucla.edu> and subject line Re: bug#57946: ls indenting broken if executed without color flag after i set tabs to 4 has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #57946, regarding ls indenting broken if executed without color flag after i set tabs to 4 to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact help-debbugs@gnu.org.) -- 57946: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=57946 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: ls indenting broken if executed without color flag after i set tabs to 4 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:19:59 +0700 Actually, I don't know if this is a bug. But, when I set tabs to 4 in bash$ tabs 4then ls (without the color flag) a big directory, such as /usr/bin$ alias$ ls /usr/bin/(lots of white text)...elfedit info nl-route-add sndfile-deinterleave xzegrep
env infocmp nl-route-delete sndfile-info xzfgrep
envsubst infotocap nl-route-get sndfile-interleave xzgrep
eqn init nl-route-list sndfile-metadata-get xzless
eqn2graph insmod nl-rule-list sndfile-metadata-set xzmore
escapesrc install nl-tctree-list sndfile-play yacc
event_rpcgen.py install-info nl-util-addr sndfile-salvage yat2m
expand integritysetup nm soelim yes
expiry ionice nmcli sort zcat
expr ip nm-online sotruss zcmp
factor ip6tables nmtui source-highlight zdiffCompare to when I use color flag...$ ls --color=auto /usr/bin/(lots of colored text)...faillock ip6tables-apply nmtui-connect source-highlight-esc.sh zdump
faillog ip6tables-legacy nmtui-edit source-highlight-settings zegrep
faked ip6tables-legacy-restore nmtui-hostname speaker-test zfgrep
fakeroot ip6tables-legacy-save nohup speexdec zforce
fallocate ip6tables-nft nologin speexenc zgrep
false ip6tables-nft-restore nproc split zic
fancontrol ip6tables-nft-save npth-config sprof zless
fax2ps ip6tables-restore nroff sqldiff zmore
fax2tiff ip6tables-restore-translate nscd sqlite3 znewThe indentation didn't broke at all.If this is a bug, please fix it. Thanks!
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#57946: ls indenting broken if executed without color flag after i set tabs to 4 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:21:23 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 On 9/19/22 20:19, galih surya wrote:Actually, I don't know if this is a bug.It's not something 'ls' can easily fix, because 'ls' can't deduce from the operating system that you have installed nonstandard tab stops.I installed the attached to try to document the issue.Messing with hardware tab stops is typically more trouble than it's worth. I think the last time I did it was back in the 1970s, with a IBM 029 keypunch drum card. Back then it sort of made sense, if you were programming in assembler or FORTRAN 66. Nowadays, not so much.0001-doc-warn-about-tabs-command-bug-57946.patch
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