On 28/01/2025 20:00, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hello,
ls(1) says this about --format:
--format=WORD
across -x, commas -m, horizontal -x, long -l, single-column -1,
verbose -l, vertical -C
It was not clear at all for my students (and not for me either,
actually), that it's the words that should be used, and not the letters.
The attached patch makes this much more explicit:
--format=WORD where WORD can be
across (like -x), commas (like -m), horizontal (like -x), long
(like -l), single-column (like -1), verbose (like -l), vertical
(like -C)
Right. It might suffice just to add the parentheses,
and then the description would be of consistent form with:
--sort=WORD sort by WORD instead of name: none (-U), size (-S),
time (-t),
version (-v), extension (-X), width
--indicator-style=WORD
append indicator with style WORD to entry names: none (default),
slash (-p), file-type (--file-type), classify (-F)
I'll adjust accordingly and push if you agree.
cheers,
Pádraig
