bug: with many files, the grid option doesn't work

[kiyoon]

• The version of eza being used (eza --version): 0.17.2
• The command-line arguments you are using: eza, eza --icons auto etc.
• Your operating system and hardware platform: Ubuntu 20.04

Without the -1 option it still prints every file per line. All of the file names are shown as such, with 4 character codes.

[PThorpe92]

Hey thanks for reporting the issue. A couple questions,

Could you list out the rest of the exact arguments you are using?

how many files in a directory is "many", and the same args in a smaller directory is producing different output?

All of the file names are shown as such, with 4 character codes.

Do you mean that those aren't the file names?

Trying to re-create this issue, so as much info as you can give would be helpful 👍

[kiyoon]

@PThorpe92 No argument was needed to reproduce this. It works like this with whatever I use, with or without --icons for example. With exa the grid works well.

This was enough to reproduce:

for a in {0001..0401}; do touch $a; done
eza --icons auto

• With 400 files it works as expected, but not with 401 files.
• Without --icons I needed to create more files, like 600 to reproduce. (don't know the exact boundary)
• I'm using Wezterm ($TERM=wezterm) and I found out that with Gnome Terminal the issue doesn't exist.
• The size of the terminal seems to matter. The issue exists with the terminal fit to full screen but not with smaller window.

[PThorpe92]

Interesting how this doesn't reproduce in gnome. Thanks for the info I'll try to repro this as I use wezterm as well.

[kiyoon]

@PThorpe92 My theory is that there exist some edge cases where it doesn't align the grid, and maybe with gnome terminal if I had the exact same column it might happen too.

[PThorpe92]

Strange, I expected to be able to reproduce this, as I have seen kind of random errors in the past with grid width. but I tried on Wez, alactritty, kitty, xfce-term and xterm on eza v0.17.3 and got the proper amt of columns every time, even at different window sizes.
Perhaps try upgrading to17.3 and see if that fixes it?

[kiyoon]

Thanks for the time to try many settings but I'm sorry you couldn't reproduce. I tried with the v0.17.3 but the issue still exists.

Additional info that may be helpful

$ tput cols
166

$ tput lines
34

It seems like the number of row doesn't matter, but the width matters. I tried with smaller font size and set the width to 166, and I can still reproduce it.

[kiyoon]

OK, with Gnome Terminal it happens exactly the same as Wezterm so it wasn't the issue with the terminal. My bad.

With width=166 you should be able to reproduce it.

[PThorpe92]

Yeah after quite a bit of testing, I was able to reproduce it. Super strange, because the command that I use for my alias (alias ls="eza --icons --color-scale -lAh --git --git-repos --no-permissions --grid") will display properly, but eza --icons will not.

but eza --icons -lA --grid will display properly, however if you take away the -lA, --icons --grid will not...

Very strange indeed, especially because with cols at 158, and 176, it works as expected 😕

Looking into this 👍

[kiyoon]

That is really weird! But I'm glad you were able to reproduce it and I appreciate it for maintaining the awesome project 😄

[tertsdiepraam]

I'm looking into this, it's a bug in uutils-term-grid. I've been able to reproduce it in the test suite there.

[tertsdiepraam]

I've fixed this in uutils/uutils-term-grid#34, but we'll need to port eza to use the new version of uutils-term-grid to use the fix. It was a weird combination of small mistakes in the computation of some heuristics, which is why it was so sensitive to those specific values.

[kiyoon]

Thank you so much!