open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/911

If a sysop would like to decorate the number used to select a door program, then %3u is going to put spaces in the wrong place. For example. I like mine to look like this:

{width=747 height=268}

However, it seems impossible to achieve without altering the code, which makes it difficult to keep in step with any changes.

Maybe there should be an "initial_margin" or some padding option that will make sure the first part (number) always lines up to the left.

Otherwise I end up with something junky like this.

{width=750 height=244}

I can't imagine I'm the only sysop that's going to have this issue so prefer it fixed at the base level. Either that or I'm missing something.
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/911#note_7069

Are you referring to this string?
`options.singlecolumn_fmt = "\x01h\x01c%3u \xb3 \x01n\x01c%s\x01h ";`

That's customizable via modopts (without altering "the code").
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/911#note_7070

Then how would I indent (%u) by 0 or 1 spaces depending on whether %u is a single or double digit?
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/911#note_7071

I don't have any immediate ideas other than logic similar to that in show_subs() from load/shell_lib.js (which also naively assumes you won't have more than 99 items).
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/911#note_7072

Which goes back to my point of this needing a code change that I'd prefer to be done in git since, like I said, I can't be the only sysop facing this issue. My xtrn_sec.js file is about 4 years out of date due to the mods I have made, so I'm trying to get it up to date but it might be a moot point since it "just works" as is.
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close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/911
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