In flush-left mode of both man(7) and mdoc(7), when an output line is broken

at the position of a literal tab, the tab indents the following line.
Fixes the perl(1) SYNOPSIS; reminded by deraadt@; OpenBSD rev. 1.66.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 3a1c07e6..89525db0 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -169,9 +169,6 @@
   so far, we only have it in roff(7) and man(7)
   reminded by millert@  Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:29:52 -0500
 
-- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@
-  1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too
-
 - In .Bl -column,
   .It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length
   ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too,
diff --git a/term.c b/term.c
index 161cdadb..9e28f29c 100644
--- a/term.c
+++ b/term.c
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ void
 term_flushln(struct termp *p)
 {
 	int		 i;     /* current input position in p->buf */
+	int		 ntab;	/* number of tabs to prepend */
 	size_t		 vis;   /* current visual position on output */
 	size_t		 vbl;   /* number of blanks to prepend to output */
 	size_t		 vend;	/* end of word visual position on output */
@@ -144,10 +145,12 @@ term_flushln(struct termp *p)
 		 * Handle literal tab characters: collapse all
 		 * subsequent tabs into a single huge set of spaces.
 		 */
+		ntab = 0;
 		while (i < p->col && '\t' == p->buf[i]) {
 			vend = (vis / p->tabwidth + 1) * p->tabwidth;
 			vbl += vend - vis;
 			vis = vend;
+			ntab++;
 			i++;
 		}
 
@@ -192,6 +195,11 @@ term_flushln(struct termp *p)
 			} else
 				vbl = p->offset;
 
+			/* use pending tabs on the new line */
+
+			if (0 < ntab)
+				vbl += ntab * p->tabwidth;
+
 			/* Remove the p->overstep width. */
 
 			bp += (size_t)p->overstep;