Re: [PATCH] ls: add --sort=width (-W) option to sort by filename width

[Carl Edquist]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Michael Stone wrote:

> I think it's a heck of a lot easier to add short options than it is to 
> remove them, and that there are more ideas for things to do than there 
> are letters. I'm on the side of make it a long option. In a few years if 
> it's a commonly used thing with a groundswell of demand for a short 
> option, it can always be added. There are a lot of existing short 
> options that aren't used very often, are redundant, or are simply 
> confusing, and it would be really nice (but impossible) to have those 
> letters back. Continuing the tradition of burning short options by 
> default just makes the hole deeper.

That makes sense!

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate the discussion.

Carl