GNU bug report logs - #54908
Make tabluated list tables more readable by adding some light column color to even columns

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From: Denes Kis <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Make tabluated list tables more readable by adding some light column
 color to even columns
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:16:56 +0000

Since columns have no separating lines, nor different colors, tables are often hard to read when the values are close to each other due to column sizes:

                2m 26.0s       5m 0.0s savehist-autosave
             8h 8m 12.5s 1d 0h 0m 0.0s clean-buffer-list
            11h 8m 12.7s 1d 0h 0m 0.0s run-hooks
           18h 28m 12.5s 1d 0h 0m 0.0s recentf-cleanup
               59m 29.6s    1h 0m 0.0s url-cookie-write-file

Adding some light background color to even numbered columns could alleviate this, because then it's easier to see where a column ends and where the data of the next column begins.

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