Preserve whitespace by default?

[rauchg]

https://github.com/timoxley/columnify/blob/master/index.js#L89

Why does it collapse whitespace other than newlines?

[rauchg]

Once I got rid of that option in my local copy, I also traced whitespace trimming to:
https://github.com/timoxley/columnify/blob/master/utils.js#L83

[timoxley]

Why does it collapse whitespace other than newlines?

Does it by default because it's trying to format dirty data as prettily as possible, Though I think I have been bitten by this before, trying to display some data that was pre-formatted.

Can you elaborate on your use-case?

[rauchg]

@timoxley displaying pre-formatted data, where leading whitespace is relevant

[brandoncarl]

This would be great to allow a preserveWhitespace option!

[nikolakanacki]

Agreed, whitespace is a must for pre-formatted tables.

[runvnc]

If no one is working on this, I can try to do a preserveWhitespace option.