Subject: Re: bug#9116: Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab>

From: Hallvard B Furuseth <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:42:22 +0200

Pádraig Brady writes:
>On 19/07/11 08:13, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>> Coreutils 5.12 gets that right in my test:
>> 1st output line is "1234567<space><tab>1".
> 
> That's incorrect according to POSIX.
> The space should be converted to tab as
> it's followed by a blank.

Duh, sorry.  I read "...immediately preceding a tab stop"
as "...immediately preceding a <tab>".

The manpage about this is wrong too:

  "-a, --all     convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks"

No, not single spaces that happen to be just before a tab stop.

-- 
Hallvard