[colug-432] Nice Plain Text Columns and Avoiding NIH: expand: not

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 09:05:37 -0400, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not fancy but it probably falls into the "classic" category: expand

Expand does not do the following: 

>    o   echoes the input, replacing tabs with enough spaces so
>        as to make the fields line up in nice columns
>        o   each column would only get as much space as it
>            needs to line up nice

The program should automatically do the above. 
I do not want to have to manually figure out or specify explicit tab positions.