GNU bug report logs - #24926
ls-quotes: ls output has been made ugly

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "L. A. Walsh" <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>
Subject: Re: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly
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
----
	He didn't list his creation command.  How
would you know?


> with two spaces, not one.
---
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.
---
	Why would you intentionally create something to be 
confusing?  ;-?

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