Oh, interesting.
That's a problem for very wide fields, which aren't going to be handled very well even using \x.
\x was meant to handle large numbers of fields, or slightly wider fields.
But you're right, maybe that could be cleaned up a little more.
I tried using it for a result that contains really wide columns. I'm seeing a screen full of hyphens separating the rows.
You'd think that the hyphens would stretch across just one line of the screen, instead of across the whole result set. See https://img.skitch.com/20120910-fn1abpp3w94yhg63hc8yemt4a4.p...