On 2018-12-07 12:06:08 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote on Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 12:43:42 +0100: > > the issue with the suffix solution (B/K/M/G) is that it is actually > > less readable when one has many files in the list. I mean that with > > the full file size displayed, it is very easy to see which files take > > the most space, or similar information: the number of digits gives the > > order of magnitude of the file size; this can be found in a fraction > > of second. With the suffix form, one needs to look at all the sizes > > one by one. > > The output with SI suffixes is not the default. If you don't opt-in to > it by passing a new-in-1.12 option, you will never see it in the first > place.
I'm a bit lost. :( I thought that this was the solution to make more space for the author names (as the SI suffixes were discussed under this thread). > Did you have some specific change you wanted to propose? (Other than > making the 'author' column's width configurable) I just wanted to have more than 8 characters for the authors names (without changing the "file size" column). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
