Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/56496; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:39:46 +0700

     Date:        Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:02 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20211115154002.2F87F1A923A%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  I noticed that a plain 'diff -u' will also expand whitespace in the
 
 I can confirm this in HEAD.
 
 I think this might be a tty driver issue though, as "stty oxtabs" looks
 to correct the problem.
 
 Further, it looks to be unrelated to anything to do with any diff
 variant, as
 
 	printf "%70saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\tbb\n", x
 
 also shows the same problem.   The first 'b' shows up in the rightmost column.
 
 kre