On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 01:51:05AM +0000, Chris Maynard wrote:
> however, I am wondering if 8 is simply used more than 4 because that's
> what the Wireshark modeline generation tool happens to default to,
I believe the GNU standard is for an 8 space tabstop, but now I can't
find a reference to back up that claim.
> Hence the inquiry about adding setq tab-width, [and implicitly
> indent-tabs-mode too). As more and more modelines get added, I was
> just thinking that it might be nice to have as many common editors
> covered as reasonably possible instead of adding some now and having
> to go back again to add more later.
Can modelines be at the top of a file? The boiler plate copyright
notice from doc/README.developer might be a good place to put it.
> I really like the modelines too; I guess I'm also lazy.
Or prefer to work smarter than harder :)