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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tab-width considered less effective than some might think

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:04:58 -0700

On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Gerald Combs wrote:

Visual C++ defaults to tabs for indentation with tab stops every 4
characters. I'm not sure if these settings can be overridden without
changing the user's global preferences.

Then perhaps the answer is "indent with space characters, not tab characters", as Sake suggested.