Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] "consistent" indentation and tabstop=8

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:57:25PM -0400, Bill Meier wrote:
> > > Actually: let me ask a much simpler question:
> > > Do the ex/vi/vim modelines as typically used in Wireshark even work ?
> > Good question, for me they don't work.
> > I saw commit and was testing it with :set ts=8,
> >
> > Anyway if wireshark modelines don't affect my editor settings I'm ok with it :)
> > Sorry for fuss.
>
> What do the following say?
>
>     verbose set modeline?
>     verbose set modelines?
>
> It's possible that modelines are either disabled by default or don't
> reach the modeline statement.

I checked that:

On the Ubuntu system, I had to add a 'set modeline' to .vimrc but even 
then  the vim modeline in a test file worked only after changing the 
line as described previously.