bug#22698: ls output changes considered unacceptable

[Paul Eggert]

Paul Vint wrote:

> when I type ls in a directory with a couple files with spaces in their
> names, since they are enclosed in quotes, those files jump out at me in the
> listing

In my experience this is more of a feature than a bug, for many new users. 
Here's the old behavior:

$ ls
a  b  c  d
$ ls -l a b
ls: cannot access 'b': No such file or directory
-rw-r--r--. 1 eggert eggert 0 Feb 18 21:16 a


In contrast, with the new behavior the apostrophes give the user fair warning 
that the file names might cause trouble:

$ ls
a  'b  c'  d
$ ls -l a b
ls: cannot access 'b': No such file or directory
-rw-r--r--. 1 eggert eggert 0 Feb 18 21:16 a