On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:43:59PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Emacs can use --dired now, so this should not be an issue. > > OK, thanks. I just now checked, and if I understand it aright this > started happening with Emacs 21.3 (released March 2003). > > Can we safely assume that everyone in non-POSIX locales with oddball > time stamp formats and who wants to use recent coreutils is also using > Emacs 21.3 or later? It sounds a bit risky, but perhaps it would be > OK. (After the next coreutils release, that is.) > > If we can assume Emacs works, then that removes the last major worry I > had about 'locale' time stamp format being the default. To > recapitulate the worries, this was: > > * Poorly configured hosts would generate English time stamps in > non-English locales (this would be fixed by having > --time-stamp='locale' default to long-iso formats in such locales > -- a fix that is not done yet). > > * Time stamps were not all the same width, leading to jagged > columns. (Fixed in GNU/Linux by having the locales done right; > other hosts like Solaris will just have jagged columns, I guess. > If this turns into a real problem we can have ls autoadjust the > widths as it already does for several other columns.) > > * Emacs got confused. > > > Mike, what do you think about the following patch for Gentoo, in place > of what Gentoo is doing currently? It implements the suggestion I > have in mind. This is not installed in coreutils: it's just a > proposal.
Please do not forget to apply this patch, at least to development branch. -- ldv
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