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

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

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

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:55:32 +0300

 On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 16:37:50 +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
 
 > On a 
 > 
 > % fgrep "Build date" /etc/release 
 >           Build date   Tue Jun 29 23:19:48 UTC 2021
 > %
 > 
 > netbsd-9 installation, output is fine; it looks like the relevant 
 > change has been pulled up since.
 
 I don't have a current current handy, unfortunately.  On a current
 from May I don't see the problem.
 
 
 > I noticed that a plain 'diff -u' will also expand whitespace in the 
 > same excessive way.
 
 This seems to strongly hint at problems with tab settings, as diff,
 afaik, doesn't do any processing on its input.
 
 Do you see the bug with wscons?  With some different terminal
 emulator?  Does something like
 
   printf 'x\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\tx\n'
 
 (with suitably large number of repetitions) shows the expected ecenly
 spaced output?
 
 -uwe