Subject: bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:05:24 -0800

L A Walsh wrote:
>> 'ls -C'.
> ---
>     Doesn't work.

It works for me. If it doesn't work for you, perhaps you need to investigate 
why. This alone might solve whatever problem you're having with 'ls'.

As for the rest of the proposal, it sounds too complicated for what would be 
only a minor improvement.