Subject: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly

From: "L. A. Walsh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:08:05 -0800

Eric Blake wrote:
>>>  touch 'a b' c
> 
> That's your problem.  Paul did:
> 
> $ touch 'a  b' c
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	He didn't list his creation command.  How
would you know?

> with two spaces, not one.
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You are assuming that.  But if he didn't list how
he created them...

>> Where (or under what conditions)
>> do you see the "a, b and c" being
>> spaced apart equally?
> 
> When you intentionally create the spacing between a and b to match the
> spacing between a*b and c.
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	Why would you intentionally create something to be 
confusing?  ;-?

	Oh... to make a point and win an argument.  Silly me.