Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/config/pgp.txt: replace stray <TAB> character with <SPC>

From: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Date: Jan 27, 2022, 08:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4216fdca-cf73-4bf6-b911-90c6c7ba0e2d@beta.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5yq56hbu.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, at 3:30 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net> writes:
> 
> > Specifically, replace the tab between "the" and "first" with a space.
> 
> Good eyes.  Does it have ANY practical downside to leave it unfixed?
> 
> In other words, how did you spot it (e.g. "asciidoctor passes tab as-is
> and screwed up an alignment of the text, which was how I noticed it")?

The nearby fix (the apostrophe) in the other commit was what had me looking at this file in the first place. But my editor (Neovim) made the mid-line tab visually obvious, so I figured may as well clean it up along the way; on my screen it looked something like this:

    ▷┅┅┅signature is requested. On successful exit a valid ssh public key is
    ▷┅┅┅expected in the▷┅┅┅first line of its output. To automatically use the first
    ▷┅┅┅available key from your ssh-agent set this to "ssh-add -L".

Vim's "listchars" setting is responsible for making tabs visible like that:

    :set listchars=extends:»,nbsp:⦸,precedes:«,tab:▷⋯,trail:•

Greg