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bug#26991: New quoting takes up unnecessary space


From: L A Walsh
Subject: bug#26991: New quoting takes up unnecessary space
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 23:48:01 -0700
User-agent: Thunderbird



The new format uses extra spacing on columns where it isn't needed --
but the extra space isn't enough to handle the 1 file that was quoted
(needs 5 extra columns).  Where does it get '3' (and why doesn't it use
2?)?

Here are 32 files:
 ls
aaaaaaa bbbbbbb ccccccc ddddddd eeeeeee fffffff ggggggg hhhhhhh aaaaaaa0 bbbbbbb0 ccccccc0 ddddddd0 eeeeeee0 fffffff0 ggggggg0 hhhhhhh0 aaaaaaa1 bbbbbbb1 ccccccc1 ddddddd1 eeeeeee1 fffffff1 ggggggg1 hhhhhhh1 aaaaaaa2 bbbbbbb2 ccccccc2 ddddddd2 eeeeeee2 fffffff2 ggggggg2 hhhhhhh2
#       ^^ -- 2 chars separate

 mv aaaaaaa \"aaaa\'\"    #same number of characters
ls
'"aaaa'\''"' bbbbbbb0 ccccccc1 ddddddd2 fffffff ggggggg0 hhhhhhh1 aaaaaaa0 bbbbbbb1 ccccccc2 eeeeeee fffffff0 ggggggg1 hhhhhhh2
aaaaaaa1      bbbbbbb2   ddddddd    eeeeeee0   fffffff1   ggggggg2
aaaaaaa2      ccccccc    ddddddd0   eeeeeee1   fffffff2   hhhhhhh
bbbbbbb       ccccccc0   ddddddd1   eeeeeee2   ggggggg    hhhhhhh0
                      ^^^ - now using minimum of 3 spaces between columns











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