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List: coreutils-bug
Subject: Re: fmt gobbles leading whitespace in prefix mode
From: Jim Meyering <jim () meyering ! net>
Date: 2006-01-19 21:00:16
Message-ID: 87psmodjbz.fsf () rho ! meyering ! net
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Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Jim: Any comment on this <http://bugs.debian.org/147577>?
>
> $ fmt --version
> fmt (GNU coreutils) 5.93
> $ cat fmt-test
> tabbed
> tabbed-twice
> leading-space
> two-leading-spaces
>
>> quoted
>> text
> $ fmt fmt-test
> tabbed
> tabbed-twice
> leading-space
> two-leading-spaces
>
>> quoted > text
> $ fmt -p fmt-test
>
> $ fmt -p "> " fmt-test
> tabbed
> tabbed-twice
> leading-space
> two-leading-spaces
>
>> quoted text
It sure looks like a bug to me.
I've added that (expected-fail for now) test case.
If someone feels like fixing this, I'd welcome a patch.
Thanks for digging it up, and to Neil for reporting
it in the first place.
2006-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* tests/fmt/basic (pfx-1, pfx-2): New tests, to demonstrate the bug
reported as http://bugs.debian.org/147577. Forwarded by Thomas Hood.
Index: tests/fmt/basic
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/fmt/basic,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -p -u -r1.12 -r1.13
--- tests/fmt/basic 20 Apr 2005 07:54:54 -0000 1.12
+++ tests/fmt/basic 19 Jan 2006 20:58:22 -0000 1.13
@@ -40,6 +40,23 @@ my @Tests =
{ERR => "fmt: invalid option -- 7; -WIDTH is recognized only when it"
. " is the first\noption; use -w N instead\n"
. "Try `fmt --help' for more information.\n" }, {EXIT => 1}],
+
+ # With --prefix=P, Do not remove leading on lines without the prefix.
+ ['pfx-1', qw (-p '>'),
+ {IN=> " 1\n 2\n\t3\n\t\t4\n> quoted\n> text\n"},
+ # This is the buggy output (leading white space removed),
+ # from coreutils-5.93.
+ {OUT=> "1\n2\n3\n4\n> quoted text\n"}],
+ # FIXME: this is the desired output
+ # {OUT=> " 1\n 2\n\t3\n\t\t4\n> quoted text\n"}],
+
+ # Like the above, but when two adjacent, non-prefixed lines have
+ # the same indentation, ensure that they are formatted.
+ ['pfx-2', qw (-p '>'),
+ {IN=> " 1\n 2\n\t3\n\t4\n"},
+ {OUT=> "1\n2\n3\n4\n"}],
+ # FIXME: this is the desired output
+ # {OUT=> " 1 2\n\t3 4\n"}],
);
my $save_temps = $ENV{DEBUG};
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