Re: dired alignment

[Richard Stallman]

    Actually, if it could be handled correctly, I'd rather like the new behavior
    in dired too (I use direct much more often than I use plain ls) -- it's
    annoying when columns take up much more room than they actually need.

To do this would require dired to realign all the lines whenever one
line changes.  This would be a nuisance in a number of ways.  One
file with a long group name could make all the file names cause
line continuation.