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)