ls: strange --classify output

[sanpii]

Actual:

Expected:

$ uu-ls -F tests/fixtures/
base32/ cat/    cksum/  cp/     cut/    dircolors/      env/    fmt/    hashsum/        install/        mv/     nohup/  od/     pr/     shuf/   split/  tac/    test/ unexpand/        uptime/ util/
base64/ chgrp/  comm/   csplit/ dd/     du/             expand/ fold/   head/           join/           nl/     numfmt/ paste/  ptx/    sort/   sum/    tail/   tsort/uniq/            users/  wc/

$ \ls -F tests/fixtures/
base32/  chgrp/  cp/      dd/         env/     fold/     install/  nl/      od/     ptx/   split/  tail/   unexpand/  users/
base64/  cksum/  csplit/  dircolors/  expand/  hashsum/  join/     nohup/   paste/  shuf/  sum/    test/   uniq/      util/
cat/     comm/   cut/     du/         fmt/     head/     mv/       numfmt/  pr/     sort/  tac/    tsort/  uptime/    wc/

$ uu-ls -V
uu-ls 0.0.28

$ $TERM -V
wezterm 20240203-110809-5046fc22

[sylvestre]

please replace screenshots by code. They are terrible for accessibility (ex: i might have visual impairment) and search.
thanks

[sanpii]

@sylvestre The text version is not exactly the same

[sylvestre]

thanks. I updated comment 0

[rm-dr]

Looks like this is a result of fd2c4a1. Using tabs as an alignment character confuses the alignment code in term-grid, which treats \t as a character that is one column wide. This results in lines with an effective length that exceeds the width of the terminal.

We could fix this temporarily with https://github.com/rm-dr/coreutils/tree/ls-only-spaces, then resolve the underlying tab problem by finishing (or restarting, it's been more than a year) uutils/uutils-term-grid#24?

Related:

• Add Tab option uutils-term-grid#24 (incomplete solution)
• ls -CF should generate tab and not space #5396 (the fix for 5396 caused this problem)
• Implement ls -T  #3624 (similar issue, also blocked by tabs)