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
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 06:56:45 +0700

     Date:        Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:05:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20211115230501.ABCF21A923A%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  Well, all I can say is that these etcupdate(8) merges have "always"
   |  been formatted reasonably, up to and including the netbsd-9 Tue Jun 29
   |  23:19:48 UTC 2021 build.
 
 The underlying issue has nothing to do with etcupdate or sdiff, that
 much is clear.    There's something else going on, which might be
 related to xterm settings (perhaps how it is configured in the resources
 database, or something like that).
 
 It appears that sometimes, somehow, the xterm gets tabs set up to
 column 80, and no more after that (which results in the next one appearing
 to go to just before the final column as RVP indicated vt100's do .. I
 no longer remember those things at all).
 
 Certainly setting oxtabs while doing this is a fairly simple workaround,
 but there is something else happening.
 
 Hauke, try a full reset from the middle button (by default anyway) menu
 after resizing the xterm, see if that makes any difference.
 
 kre