right-justification of uid's/gid's is a mistake.

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Hi,

It's unclear to me if this has been addressed definitively yet,
so here goes nothing:

I think there's no justification (pun intended) for the current
right-justification of uid's/gid's -- it really looks ugly.

Sure it stands out, but I don't think ls should be in the business
of doing special formatting by default based on someone's arbitrary
definition of what needs a user's special attention -- it's contrary
to UNIX philosophy btw.

Ls should basically just list files, and their associated data, by
default in a clean format -- nothing more.

BJ


ridiculous formatting that I don't care for:
total 16
drwx--x--x   3 root              staff 4096 Apr 10 23:27 .
drwxrwxrwt  17 root              staff 8192 Apr 10 23:23 ..
-rw-------   1               666 staff    0 Apr 10 23:27 foo
dr-xr-xr-x   8 ftp               admin 4096 Mar 20  2002 ftp
-rw-------   1 aliceinwonderland staff    0 Apr 10 23:27 humpty-dumpty

clean formatting:
total 16
drwx--x--x   3 root              staff 4096 Apr 10 23:27 .
drwxrwxrwt  17 root              staff 8192 Apr 10 23:29 ..
-rw-------   1 666               staff    0 Apr 10 23:27 foo
dr-xr-xr-x   8 ftp               admin 4096 Mar 20  2002 ftp
-rw-------   1 aliceinwonderland staff    0 Apr 10 23:27 humpty-dumpty