Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] modelines

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Bill Meier wrote:

> On 9/28/2011 4:57 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>> 
>> I'll argue that *tab*stops should be 8 until someone shows me how to
>> tell all the various terminal programs I end up using that the file I'm
>> currently looking at (in 'less' or 'grep' or plain old 'cat') that the
>> file in question is using an alternative tabstop. (Or until I'm blue in
>> the face or dead or whatever ;-).)
>> 
> 
> +5 !

+10^(10^100)

The UNIX tty driver, the default tab settings you get from e.g. tset, and the default tab settings in most if not all UN*X terminal emulators do 8-space tabs.  (Xcode didn't get the memo, which is why

	http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/autofs/autofs-207/autofs.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

has a bunch of entries that say "indentWidth = 8".)