Vincent Lefevre wrote on Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 12:43:42 +0100:
> the issue with the suffix solution (B/K/M/G) is that it is actually
> less readable when one has many files in the list. I mean that with
> the full file size displayed, it is very easy to see which files take
> the most space, or similar information: the number of digits gives the
> order of magnitude of the file size; this can be found in a fraction
> of second. With the suffix form, one needs to look at all the sizes
> one by one.

The output with SI suffixes is not the default.  If you don't opt-in to
it by passing a new-in-1.12 option, you will never see it in the first
place.

Did you have some specific change you wanted to propose?  (Other than
making the 'author' column's width configurable)

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