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: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:13:34 +0700

     Date:        Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:20:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20211116002001.8A3331A923A%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  Eh... I'm beginning to reconsider now... If you look at that screenshot,
   |  in the second changeset, sdiff seems to be "overcompensating" and adding
   |  a lot more spaces than is warranted.
 
 You're assuming it is sdiff doing that, and from Hauke's messages, diff as
 well - I doubt either of those is expanding tabs (though for sdiff, at least
 on the left side, it might make some sense).
 
 But I have seen this happen with printf sending test, and a tab at a position
 beyond column 80.   Definitely no diff related commands involved, and printf
 is most certainly not trying to expand tabs.
 
 That stty oxtabs makes a difference is also revealing.
 
   |  Hauke, can you post/email your sdiff binary amd the outputs of a: `locale'
   |  and `infocmp'?
 
 You can if you want, but none of that will reveal anything useful.
 
 kre