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

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why there's tabstop=8, but file is indented with 2 spaces?
> How should <tab> key works in these files?
>
> If you want to mark that \t in files are bad, let at least set
> softtabstop=2 to make using <tab> sane.

Without starting any new discussion, my only intent is that any tabs in 
a Wireshark source file are always displayed as going to a column 
position of 9, 17, ... (where the left-most column is numbered as 1).

In any case, there are at least 25 or 30 other  Wireshark files (besides 
those I changed) with ex/vi modelines which have shiftwidth different 
than tabstop.

I presume those ex/vi modelines should also have tabstop the same as 
shiftwidth to allow the use of a <tab key> in ex/vi/vim to cause an 
indentation equivalent to shiftwidth (whether or not a <tab character> 
is actually inserted in the file).

(I'm not really that familiar with the ex/vi/vim editors. Is a modeline 
prefixed by ex: also used by vi ??)