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tariandbari on Aug 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

To the author: As you are already making a much more user and human friendly version of ls (like making ls -h the default behavior) please consider placing the name of the file on the left most column

   inode Permissions Links  Size Blocks User Group Date Modified Name

21214836 .rw-r--r-- 1 9.4Ki 24 ben staff 29 Jun 16:16 Cargo.lock

As a human I first care for the name, Currently I'm forced to scan the right most column (which position varies) and then travel back to the beginning of the line and read the rest of the metadata

yAnonymous on Aug 4, 2017 [–]

It's much easier to deal with line breaks. File names first would break the entire layout when one of them is too long.

And when the terminal is on the left, you don't have to move your eyes so much away from the middle of the screen.

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