Subject: bug#16179: 24.3.50; darwin: ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program=nil => bad formatting

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:25:24 +0200

> From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:57:53 -0500
> 
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.00)
>  of 2013-12-17 on sds-MacBook-Pro.local
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1265
> Configured using:
>  `configure --with-ns'
> 
> (require 'ls-lisp)
> (setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil)

Not sure why you did that: the second line effectively disables the
first one.  Is ls-lisp dumped into the Emacs executable on Darwin?  If
not, why did you need the above?

> results in a dired buffer where the colums are not aligned because the
> file size between group and data does not have a fixed width

This is obviously data-dependent, so please show the data and the
screenshot of bad display.