Subject: bug#26727: Plain ls (from coreutils git master local build) sometimes emit leading spaces at output lines

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 08:11:43 -0700

On 05/01/2017 09:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> That was done to better align items when 'quotes' are added on some items.

Couldn't 'ls' add these spaces only in columns that contain both quoted 
and unquoted names, and not bother with the spaces in other columns? 
That would be a more-efficient use of valuable screen real estate.