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

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:13:09 +0200
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 02:57:48PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> (I.e., our source code style should not make *any* assumptions about the behavior and capabilities 
> of the editor that any particular developer uses, as we should not impose any requirements 
> (other than "handles ASCII") on editors.)

Well, we already have modelines in our source code, so I assume we want to make editing in vim and emacs easier.