Re: Add a new (defaut) coloring rule

[Anil <anilkumar911 () gmail com>]

Thanks guy. Now it makes sense. It s created by wireshark and not the
build. I did not read it right.
On 27 Jan 2015 15:58, "Guy Harris" <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Anil <anilkumar911 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Are you sure ? The first line of these files is
> >
> > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!  It was created by Wireshark
>
> The second part of that comment might well be true; somebody might have
> created it by using Wireshark as the editor.
>
> However, it might also have been manually edited, after having been
> written out by Wireshark at one point.
>
> The first part is a warning that
>
>         1) if you manually edit it while Wireshark is running, and then
> save color filters, Wireshark might override it (if it's your own color
> filter file)
>
> and
>
>         2) if you don't know what you're doing, you might end up with
> Wireshark ignoring or complaining about incorrect lines in the file.
>
> > Should this comment be removed ?
>
> It could be removed or replaced, but if somebody who doesn't enjoy
> manually entering RGB values and manually editing a file whose format was
> not optimized for human editability decides to edit it with Wireshark (by
> reading it in as a set of color filters and then writing out the color
> filters), that comment will be replaced by the "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!"
> comment, so it will return if somebody contributes an updated version of
> the file that they produced by writing out a file in Wireshark.
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