Re: "more", "ls -l", and column 80 in shell

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.06.2006 um 23:44 schrieb Miles Bader:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> > I had to prevent the colourising feature, now I actually have to turn
> > it on actively!  GNU's ls is not that careful -- and it cannot  
> > display
> > UTF-8 characters!
>
> Huh?  Neither of these things seem to be true....

It is true for a *shell* buffer in GNU Emacs 22.0.50: I see ``a<empty  
box>´´ instead of ``ä´´, as in dired. In GNU Emacs 23.0.0 it all  
looks right.


> [This is "ls (GNU coreutils) 5.96" ... Apple has a bit of a reputation
> for using long out-of-date versions of things like that, so who knows
> what they're including in osx...]

        ls (GNU coreutils) 5.94, from Fink distribution.

In Apple's ls I found with strings:

        $FreeBSD: src/bin/ls/cmp.c,v 1.12 2002/06/30 05:13:54 obrien Exp $
        $FreeBSD: src/bin/ls/ls.c,v 1.66 2002/09/21 01:28:36 wollman Exp $
        $FreeBSD: src/bin/ls/print.c,v 1.57 2002/08/29 14:29:09 keramida Exp $
        $FreeBSD: src/bin/ls/util.c,v 1.30 2002/06/30 05:13:54 obrien Exp $
	@(#)PROGRAM:ls  PROJECT:file_cmds-116.9  DEVELOPER:root  BUILT:Mon  
Mar 21 14:49:18 PST 2005

This old software does a better job in GNU Emacs 22.0.50's *shell*  
buffer.

--
Greetings

  Pete

“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading  
your mind.”
   - D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9