I've noticed that sometimes the columns in dired become misaligned.
I think it is because the sort (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit) indents
everything by four spaces instead of the normal two spaces.
Eg:
Dired listing after 'g' (revert-buffer)
c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/dired:
total 1016
drwxrwxrwx 2 jmincy 0 0 Feb 04 18:09 .
drwxrwxrwx 2 jmincy 0 0 Feb 04 18:09 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jmincy 0 75 Jun 20 15:57 _pkg.el
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jmincy 0 23700 Jun 20 15:57 auto-autoloads.el
...
Dired listing after 's' (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit)
Every line indents out two more spaces.
c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/dired:
total 1016
drwxrwxrwx 2 jmincy 0 0 Feb 04 18:09 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 jmincy 0 0 Feb 04 18:09 .
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jmincy 0 75 Jun 20 15:57 _pkg.el
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jmincy 0 23700 Jun 20 15:57 auto-autoloads.el
...
-jeff