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

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

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

From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:45 +0100

 On 11/18/21 2:50 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
 > that would do it
 >  =20
 >     |  No dealing with tabs, AFAICS.
 >  =20
 >   see tset(1) ... setting the tabs is something
 >   it does.
 
 Even when all 'tset -Qs' is supposed to do is produce shell-specific=20
 command strings for setting TERM?
 
 >   for the variable performance, it would make all
 >   the difference which order you used to widen the
 >   xterm and become root
 
 Except I ran all the printf... and sdiff... tests as a regular user. No=20
 su(1) involved.
 
 >   widen first, no problems, root first, bad tabs
 >   after widening
 
 Not what I see here, no.
 
 >   Anyway, this is all solved now.
 
 Well, something changed for the worse in base after last June.
 
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