Re: "consistent" indentation and tabstop=8

[Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>]

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.


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