Bill Meier wrote:
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 ??)
Actually: let me ask a much simpler question:
Do the ex/vi/vim modelines as typically used in Wireshark even work ?
AFAIKT (after trying vim on two different Linix systems and reading the
vi/vim documentation about modelines) they *don't* !!
(Am I missing something ??)
Wireshark typical:
/*
* Editor modelines - http://www.wireshark.org/tools/modelines.html
*
* Local variables:
* c-basic-offset: 4
* tab-width: 8
* indent-tabs-mode: nil
* End:
*
* vi: set shiftwidth=4 tabstop=8 expandtab
* :indentSize=4:tabSize=8:noTabs=true:
*/
After reading the vi/vim documentation about modelines and doing some
tests using vim on two different Linux systems (Fedora & Ubuntu) it
appears that the ex/vi/vim modeline above must be changed to either of
the following to actually work:
* vi: shiftwidth=4 tabstop=8 expandtab (note 'set ' removed)
* vi: set shiftwidth=4 tabstop=8 expandtab: (note trailing ':' )
So: does the ex/vi/vim modeline generated by
http://www.wireshark.org/tools/modelines.html
actually work for some vim version on some OS ?
or: if as used in Wireshark, they don't really work, I'm not going spend
any energy on them at this point.
