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: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:23:18 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:50:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20211117215001.E9F291A923A%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  I did that. Unfortunately, the problem then does not show up (maybe
   |  because or the explicit 'stty cols rows'?).
 
 Or maybe because tcsh isn't being a login shell when started that way.
 
   |  In the typescript file, neither the printf ... nor the sdiff ... output
   |  lines show the above character sequences.
 
 No, they wouldn't, they're not the source.  Something else would be, early
 in the xterm's lifetime, and most probably only once.
 
 There's also no point searching for the tab setup if the problem doesn't
 happen - in that case, nothing will have set the xterm tabs, and it all works.
 
   |  Same when I open 'xterm -g 140x25'.
 
 If you don't resize the terminal, then unless the tabs we set to
 a very unusual set of values (which isn't going to happen by accident)
 there should be no problem, setting every 8th column (the likely
 candidate) is going to be every 8th column up to the current terminal
 width.
 
 kre